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2006-08-14 Home Front: WoT

August 14, 1945: V-J Day

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sady for our generation, this war will not end with a surrender ceremony on the deck of the USS Reagan. It will end only with a nuclear Gotterdammerung in Iran, and a long drawn out gult trip laid on us by the traitors among us.

Posted by N guard 2006-08-14 09:39|| 2006-08-14 09:39|| Front Page Top

#2 There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see.

There'll be joy and laughter
And peace ever after,
Tomorrow
When the world is free,

Posted by Mike 2006-08-14 09:40|| 2006-08-14 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem N guard is that the nuclear Gotterdammerung will start with hundereds or thousands of warheads flying into the US. I believe our descendants will curse us for our cowardice and squeamishness.

Posted by ed 2006-08-14 09:51|| 2006-08-14 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 I know it's been said and written about many times that this was the greatest generation. I have to agree.

These were real Americans, tough as nails. They understood some fundamentals that have been long since forgotten. Unjaded by the cynicism of the left, the wanton excess of the 50's and 60's, the various 'revolutions', and the blame-America-first liberals, they had all the equipment and mentality necessary to win a war and save the western world. Not to mention the one thing we sorely lack today: Unity in the face of the enemy.

Could we do the same today? Maybe so, but the jury's still out. Islamo-fascism is as big a threat to the stability of the world as Nazism and Japanese militarism ever were. We'll see in the coming years if we measure up.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-14 09:58|| 2006-08-14 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 The 'greatest generation' had its share of leftists too; many who grew up during the Depression were Communists or Socialists. I talked to one of them a few days ago, a gentleman in his late 80s who had been a pilot in the 100th Bomber Group. It was called the Bloody 100th because it had such a high casualty rate making daylight bombing runs on German targets. The original crews had a 77% casualty rate (combining KIA, POW, wounded, etc)and their replacements fared similarly. The gentleman I met had been a Communist activist in high school, but it didn't stop him from fighting as effectively as anyone who had always been a patriot. He flew 35 missions as a pilot and was good enough at it that he always made it back, though not always with the plane in one piece. Besides, I think the current generation deserves a lot of credit for its performance in both Gulf Wars. Wars are much harder to fight when there are so many restrictions on killing the enemy. I don't think the current generation suffers from a lack of fighting spirit; they just have to deal with more constraints.

Posted by Odysseus 2006-08-14 17:18|| 2006-08-14 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought it was August 15. Maybe it's the time difference.

Posted by Flaigum Whelet4630 2006-08-14 21:11|| 2006-08-14 21:11|| Front Page Top

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