I'd like to see a chart like this for non-government jobs as I think this recovery may be fairly unusual in that it has a significant headwind from government job reductions.
IMO, any comment on the recession of the past several years that compares it solely to "post-war" recessions is not worth reading.
Such comments totally miss the fact that this recession is not simply a "business cycle" event but rather a "credit contraction/destruction" event. These things take years -- not quarters -- to work themselves out.