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For the non book of faces folks...
During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, "The People of the U.S.A." produced the following:
22 aircraft carriers,
8 battleships,
48 cruisers,
349 destroyers,
420 destroyer escorts,
203 submarines,
34 million tons of merchant ships,
100,000 fighter aircraft,
98,000 bombers,
24,000 transport aircraft,
58,000 training aircraft,
93,000 tanks,
257,000 artillery pieces,
105,000 mortars,
3,000,000 machine guns, and
2,500,000 military trucks.
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb, and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
Fast forward to today. People scared of a virus shut down a country and crash the economy. Tide Pod eaters decide to change to TP and Hand Sanitizer sandwiches , because they clearly aren't buying enough food to require that much TP. Over what? A virus that's clearly not as serious as the flu to their health unless they're trampled by panic stocking up on garbage. I dare say that society today would be speaking German and Japanese. We don't even have the raw materials any more to build the above amounts of equipment , nor the knowledge , let alone the dedicated workforce.
I'm truly speechless................
I just copied and pasted...no editing.
.....and God Bless America.
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