Posted on 09/01/2015 4:42:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
It will be strange when the series ends, for 6 years this has been the first article I would look for on FR.
So while a lot of us didn’t post a lot we were here every day.
I will be going through withdrawal!
Thanks, again, from the bottom of my heart. As a Disabled American these days, I will have to find another pastime to fill the void left by reading the 70 yr. old NY Times every day!
It has certainly made me a better citizen currently and a better parent to my children and son to my parents to have the perspective of daily WWII knowledge and what the country and leadership went through.
That generation had character and talent down to the 20 year olds who came off of the farms and factories that is just not evident, it seems in most of our young today.
If the Chinese tried to replicate the Japanese conquest of the Western Pacific, our industrial base would not be able to respond now as it did in 1942 because so much of it is in China! How many of our young men and women know how to “make and repair stuff” with machine tools?
Thanks for the all of the history Homer. I have learned a lot, and my kids as well. I have a box of my dad’s war letters and meant to transcribe them to add to the thread, but....
My brother gave me another handful the other day. It included one written on May 9, 1945(around VE day).
My dad (Pacific, Navy) wrote that “Nimitz said that right now we are making plans and preparations to invade the Japanese homeland! I CAN SAY THAT HE WASN’T KIDDING!!! Most of us out here expect Russia to declare war on Japan soon. It’s only a matter of time til the Japs are finished! I don’t believe it will take more than a year! I think I’ll be building houses again by Nov. ‘46!”
For his sake, and all the others, I’m glad the war only lasted a few more months.
You are still welcome to post the letters on the appropriate dates. I have a feeling these posts will begin to appear again in August 2019.
Or even January 2018, if we want to go back to the beginning prototype posts.
Not planning to bump off your wife, are you?! (I've been watching Forensic Files lately.)
I wasn’t planning on posting the 80 year anniversary series myself. Thinking maybe some young naive sprout could be tricked into volunteering. But that wouldn’t be nearly the operation that making it up as I go along has been. If I said, “Honey, I’m going to the library to get some news from World War I,” there is no telling what would happen. But it wouldn’t be pretty.
Outstanding band name.
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