every question relating to how a nation's citizens believe they will respond after experiencing something horrific, to which they have had no prior experience, is irrelevant.  Those who answer they would demand war would be demanding that we purge their pain upon those who may have no connection to their loss, and those who claim they would go on as normal express the naivete of the comfortably academic. 

the truth is that only the experience of horror shapes the response...just as only the experience of war rather than the impression of war,  proves a man's prior belief in his humanity to be true or false...