bicentennial stanza 16

I think this stanza speaks on the way that some people were oblivious to what it meant to be at war. Their fate allows them to either see the  harsh reality of what it took to gain that freedom and which was either being a male old enough and strong enough to go to war or a woman who was able to see the surface of what war meant from the convenience of her home. He brings up children and how they are celebrating this moment but they are also oblivious to world around them and their only concern was having fun and living. in a part of this stanza he says some to misery, and whether they live 100 years or die, as some have took me to think about the PTSD that many soldiers may have and how they might be able to adjust to society and or just end their lives.