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Mr. Obama’s Debt Request

  The U.S. D-Day Museum estimates the total economic cost of WWII — all nations combined — at $1.6 trillion. One could spend two lifetimes itemizing the destruction wrought during that war on Europe and Asia, and the staggering amount of war materials used therein by the Allied and Axis powers. Many, many cities were flattened to […]

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Obama Wanted to Apologize to Who?

Investor’s Business Daily is reporting that President Obama sought to publicly apologize to the Japanese government for America’s use of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.  The weapons probably saved more than one hundred thousand U.S. lives, one of them being my father’s.  He was on his way to Japan for the […]

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65 Years Ago Sunday

  A friend just sent over this video shot in Honolulu, HI on August 14, 1945, forever known in this country as VJ Day, or Victory Over Japan Day.  It was discovered recently by the daughter of the soldier who filmed it.  It is vibrant color footage, which is rare for the era, and it includes street sounds, another […]

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The Dreaded 10th Anniversary

My father used to talk to my older brother and me about the War when were little kids. It was the mid-to-late 1960’s and World War II was fairly recent history. Germany and Japan had surrendered just over 20 years prior to that, the rough equivalent today of the end of the First Gulf War. […]

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