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Date Posted: 11:03:21 08/22/13 Thu
Author: points
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Subject: Re: Chapter 14: 1938-1945: The History of the United States of America
In reply to: edy 's message, "Chapter 14: 1938-1945: The History of the United States of America" on 10:59:57 08/22/13 Thu

points for chapter 14:

*President Truman was an honest man who supported the regular guy, the lower classes, in politics, his entire life. But his reasoning�s were wrong regarding dropping the bomb at all. As civilians should never have been targets. As this war was fought because of mad men. Of course we know that war is wrong. Self defense in this case. Now, the fear of communism is greatly augmented. Near the end of World War II, President Truman already was concerned, as Soviet Union also will create their own atomic bomb.

*General MacArthur became Supreme Commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific after Japan surrendered. He was a benevolent ruler, promoting democracy. He encouraged religious freedom, civil liberties, land reform, emancipation of women, and trade unions. � He was C-in-C of the U.N. Forces during the Korean war. He quarreled with Truman. �What happened exactly was, at the outbreak of the Korean war, MacArthur�s U.N. Troops successfully made a counterattack at Inchon. He advanced his Troops to the Yalu River, certain China would not attack. Well, they did. The U.N. forces had to retreat.
MacArthur�s response was to publicly call for war with China. President Truman repeatedly had told him to knock it off with the public defamatory rhetoric. So Truman fired MacArthur 1951, April. --BookRags Website.

* Said Harry Truman concerning the removal of MacArthur from Korea: �I fired him because he wouldn�t respect the authority of the President. That�s the answer to that. I didn�t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that�s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.�[2]

Two more sources.
[1] The Oxford Companion To World War II General editor I.C.B. Dear; Consultant editor. M.R.D. Foot Oxford Un. Press NY 1995 @ I.C.B. Dear and Oxford Un. Press 1995
[2] Blood, Tears and Folly. An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton
Castle Books Harper Collins Pub. @ 1993 by Pluriform Pub. Co.
[this book was originally published by Great Britain 1993 by Jonathan Cape.]

* Need to mention the fact that President Roosevelt contracted Polio before he was President, and he became crippled. They stood him up, to make it seem he had nothing wrong. Why he hung out at places with hot springs a lot.

*The U.S. Army had their propaganda advertisement statements. Catch phrase from the Pearl Harbor attack: �Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.�

*The Pacific War was brutal. Both sides tortured and killed prisoners and massacred men trying to surrender. I also heard the opposite occurred also.

*the Axis powers simply were not loyal to one another is an understatement: Mussolini rather was not trusting Hitler at all, and secretly relished in seeing German Troops defeated in U.S.S.R. �.In Berlin, feelings about the Japanese entering the war: Jan 30, 1942, Joseph Goebbels wrote: �The Fuhrer profoundly regrets the heavy losses sustained by the white race in east Asia, but that isn�t our fault.�

*German General Erwin Rommel, after sweeping through France 1940, then became known as the notorious �Desert Fox� in North Africa.

*General Arthur Percival commander of the Allied Troops in Malaya, ..a clever and experienced leader, lost a battle by a ferocious Japanese force riding on 6,000 bicycles.

*Women in the labor force: 1890, 17%; 1920, 20%; 1950, 29%; 1960, 32%
Susan B. Anthony died 1906, an old honored lady.

*from a documentary about Ayn Rand: In her Own Words. Produced, directed by John Little and Robert Anderson. I happened upon this documentary on Netflex. She tells her life, rolling through WW1 when she was a teen, all the way to excerpts of her interviews with Tom Snyder on the Tomorrow show, 1979, and Phil Donahue show 1979.
�Ayn is from Russia. Growing up, she lived a comfortable existence; and while on vacation in Europe, WW1, Germany attacked France. They had to take a boat from Britain to Russia. The boat before them, had been bombed and did not make it. Their boat did. �.Her family left Russia, then returned when her country was renamed U.S.S.R.
�The U.S.S.R. was atheist as we know; yet, the confusion lies in the idea that ideals exist without God; the U.S.S.R. made a mockery of ideals, pretending nobility will forsake yourself for the state. Ayn saw incredible cruelty with this pretended idea that does not represent God/goodness at all; for it was evil. She confused this mockery with Jesus� message of forsaking your personal needs for the needs of the majority is only in an emergency actually, -- to save lives or eternal lives. Ayn explained how scary it was; because a pal who really isn�t may lead the government soldiers to your door, to throw you in a Concentration camp. Always feeling unsafe. �.
As an atheist, Ayn spoke, we are only our body, [self-esteem then, impossible, -- must honor everyone equally first, to feel..] �The terror in Soviet Union skewed her outlook tremendously; and this is what Mr. Snyder and Mr. Donohue were dealing with, when they interviewed her. For the self, verses unselfish actions. As our soldiers of WW2 saved our world and died a physical death in so doing, or those who helped Jewish people escape Nazi Europe. She said to one of them, that we have one life to live, we will then live it to the fullest, for the self. As she insisted on her atheistic beliefs till the end. �.Yet, she preached a preacher�s main fact to educate: truth is true.

*[And I must respond that there is no noble desire to make our world truly a better place for our children, if you are an atheist, which always cheapens the true worth of consciousness.] �..Ms. Rand had incredible luck early on; ended up with jobs in Hollywood, before she wrote her books. She wasn�t rich at first; but she didn�t know real poverty either. She had already written two books, before writing Fountainhead, [about the ideal man], and Atlas Shrugged about the ideal woman. She of course became wealthy. And this made her conceited; and as conceit always does, this further devalued the quality of all humans in her mind; thus she was the extreme Capitalist, who had no concern for the poor. Survival of the Fittest was her view. I do not cast her a bad person, but a truly brilliant but ignorant one, due to her profound circumstance, beginning in Soviet Union. During WW2 Ayn lived in the U.S., and fame and fortune was upon her. [She was in my grandparents age group; however, being a Hollywood gal, you would have thought Ayn younger, more modern then my grandmothers; or rather, Ayn did wear pants..] ----You have to wonder that if she had been poor, truly poor, and she hadn�t run into Cecil de Mille accidentally, and he hadn�t embraced her, and personally allowed her �in�, would she have become more concerned about the poverty stricken? As the entire world knows, that a poor person better be a true sociopath, if you like to pretend he is. Or, you are the one with the problem instead, -- is that camel who can make it through a needle easier then a rich man will make it into heaven, quote.

*Proof of God is philosophical, is why psychology exists. You can only feel your high self esteem if you do honor all people equally. But you can�t if we were not more then our body. You must first honor all people equally, and only after you do, will you truly feel high self esteem, is our soul. Jealousy is false because all our desires will reoccur all the time anyway, has eternal life; consciousness is One literally, (or this wouldn�t be so would it?). I will earn every person in existence is why everyone is famous. If you feel God, your soul, then how can you feel lonely? These facts are true because God exists.

*Doctor Albert Schweitzer. 1875-1965. From my Great Grandparents era. I mention him, because he was already very successful personally, when he decided to go back to school to become a doctor. He had become famous as a philosopher/theologian, organist. He could have simply enjoyed his popularity in Europe; instead he became a doctor to live in Africa, so that people there would have a doctor at all. He had to build his own facilities. His days in Africa were impressive but difficult. He gave up much personal comforts for this. His biography is inspiring. WW1 they made him go back to Europe.
As he had a goodly wife who spent her days not in Africa. After WW2, and the atomic bomb, he was asked by a reporter if all is lost in the world now, because of the bomb; and he said, no, that religious is philosophical reality has likely simple premises we will recover, and this will change the world. From a biography I read about several years ago.
Birth stats off Wikipedia.

*On pack boxes and on walls of buildings on every continent, including the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris, and the Marco Polo Bridge in China, it said, �Kilroy was here.� One year after the war ended, the American Transit Company staged a radio contest to find out who the heck Kilroy is. The winner, James Kilroy, said he had worked as inspector for the Bethlehem Steel Plant, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Accused of being inattentive, he began to write on his inspections �Kilroy was here�.

*my husbands father, in the air force WWII, was a Radio operator on one of the planes that dropped pamphlets over Hiroshima warning everyone that great destruction will come to the city in 24 hours, so get out. His father thought that there was going to be a regular bombing raid, with many planes and bombs. The next day, the bomb was dropped. His father was shocked that only one bomb caused so many fatalities and damage. [He flew in a B-29 bomber, always as a radio operator. Twice he crashed; once behind enemy lines, but he was near the border and was rescued. He died 1962 or so.]

*During the Pacific war campaigns, at times, airplane pilots would need to take off to attack, without having enough fuel to make it back. The plan was to pick them out of the sea.

*�The highest proof of the Spirit is love. Love is the eternal thing which men can already on earth possess as it really is.� Albert Schweitzer from the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Website.

*General George Patton couldn�t retire, because he died after the war, 1945, in a car wreck.

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