Posted on 05/27/2016 7:28:52 PM PDT by Trump20162020
The decision was for President Truman, and President Truman alone to make. History records that Truman remained President until Jan. of 1953. He had great support then for his decision.
I, for one, resent the trend at revisionist history that continues to plaque our nation.
Folks, there was a Civil War, and some of our fine citizens still want to sing Dixie and fly the confederate flag. Those facts are huge in our DNA
Here you are. There are more... And these are some years old now.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/archive/index.php/t-66187.html
I received ‘cereal killers’ on a final when I taught a course, long ago. The student stood there as I read the paper. Bit my lip until I thought my eyes would bleed.
Truth.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497185.Non_Campus_Mentis
“Kids say the darnedest things” is only cute when they’re 6. This is just pathetic.
And what have our public schools been teaching about that for decades?
Do they teach about Japan’s atrocities against China? About what they told their citizens about America? About Japan’s fighting methods? About Japan’s treatment of POWs? About how many more Americans would have died if that war continued?
Our public schools (that’s YOU, teachers) are to blame for the rampant Marxist-socialist PC queer BS of today.
And they got indoctrinated by Frankfurt School minions from the 50’s.
These uninformed tools of the left have no idea how close the US came to falling to the Japanese in the west and Germany in the east.
We were able to eventually rise to victory on the strength of our industrial base.
A base that we no longer have.
In 1989 there was an explosion on the Battleship USS Iowa killing 47 sailors and damaging one of the three gun turrets. It came to light that the US no longer had the capability to manufacture replacements for the three 16 inch guns damaged in the explosion.
The Iowa class battlehips were designed in the late 1930's and built in the early 1940's. But less than 50 years later we couldn't even repair one.
And that was 27 years ago - before NAFTA and other trade deals devastated what remained of heavy industry in the US.
Repair of Iowa's Damaged Turret May Not Be Possible, Skipper Says
By RICHARD HALLORAN, Special to The New York Times Published: April 25, 1989
NORFOLK NAVAL STATION, Va., April 24— The commander of the battleship Iowa said today that damage to a gun turret caused by an internal explosion last week might be so extensive that it cannot be repaired, since the technology and the trained people may no longer be available.
The skipper, Capt. Fred P. Moosally, said in a news conference here that the rest of his ship was unharmed and an option for the future would be to ''button up'' the devastated turret and return the battleship to duty with only two operating turrets.
Other Navy officers pointed out that the three turrets aboard Iowa, huge steel cylinders with three guns on top and six levels below for storing and loading ammunition, were built nearly 50 years ago and that the technology, materials and industrial know-how to rebuild or replace one may not exist today.
“But FDR is the one who authorized The Manhattan Project.”
OK, and your point is ....
Apologizing for the latter is an outrage considering the many thousands of American service men and women were killed during the war. Japan should be happy that we didn't let them stew in their wreckage after the war. They started it, we finished it.
The date of December 7, 1941 is not to be forgotten. And another thing, that our leaders chose to let Japan fleece American of much of her manufacturing base is an insult to great injury.
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