Re: OT- More Killed in California Than in War in Iraq!

In article <43990592.7026C72C@xxxxxxxxxx>, Tom says...

>> I stand corrected there, I should have known that hirohito would
>> not have made the trip to be there. Apparently it was incredibly
>> tough to get a 'ticket' to witness that ceremony on the deck.
>>
>> Your relative was a truly lucky man.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>Actually luck had nothing to do with it, he had
>distinguished himself as a Corps Commander in the
>Burma campaign. As for luck, he lost both sons
>in WWII.

I wasn't trying to trivialize his contributions.
Nor those of his sons.

By "lucky" I meant, he was fortunate to be personally
present when that phase of US history was finally and
incontrovertably finished.

Shelby Foote said that any examination of america as
a country had to include the effects of the civil war.
I would go further and state that waging, and winning
ww2 was an equally defining event for us as a country.

Once the surrender has happened, life can go forward
again. This has not, and will not happen in the middle
east for quite some time, if ever.

Jim


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