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To: ArneFufkin
Can you imagine fighting a War entailing the sacrifice, upheval and complex scope of WWII TODAY, with 24X7 Cable coverage and worldwide communication capability.

Nope. And that is why the media was tightly controlled during WWII. The first dead bodies of American soldiers were not even shown to the American public until late 1943 when King Roosevelt thought we were getting lax about the war and "allowed" "Life Magazine" to show three dead bodies of marines on some pacific island beach.

66 posted on 07/05/2003 1:18:51 AM PDT by Burkeman1
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To: Burkeman1
On Anzio beach, the Americans suffered 950 casualties in five hours.

The Allied Command would send hundreds of bomber crewmen to their deaths as a feint to mask another campaign. What a human tragedy. Counting the civilians, there may have been 70 million deaths because Hitler always dreamed of conquering Russia. The Japanese were building their little War Machine to mass murder Chinese and they needed oil that we didn't think they should have given their bad behavior.

What an absurd history Russia has. They must procreate like rabbits there. How do you lose 50-70 million people, 40-50 million men in 35 years? Volume. Volume. Volume.

What a place to grow up in the 30s. You had a good chance of being dead by 1950.

69 posted on 07/05/2003 1:33:35 AM PDT by ArneFufkin
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