[Regulator]

This is no big deal!

Just because thousands of Americans fought and died for these islands means nothing!

What’s important is that we support our great trading “partner” - the Communist Tyrannocracy known as “the People’s Republic” - in their quest for world domination!

Cuz it’ll help Wall St! And that’s all that matters! Right up to the day the PLA storms the gates of Lower Manhattan!

/rant off

[Vigilanteman]

Tulagi?

The name rang a bell from my study of WW2 history. Sure enough it is right across the sound from Guadalcanal, a 3/4 square mile island. Or 40% the size of Sand Island, the largest of the Midway atoll where we once had a military base supporting over 4000 troops and their dependents. Or 127% the size of Eastern Island, where we still maintain an airfield which can be used for emergency transpacific landings.

[woodbutcher1963]

So did the Australians.

When my father went into Luzon on the third day of the invasion he had to step on the dead bodies of both Australian and US Marines covering the beach. He was in the US Army Air Corps.