“Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! … How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care … We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end … Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.”
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C-47 Nose Art, Commemorative Air Force, Wings over Dallas
I was just thinking about this the other day. This and Pearl Harbor.
Yes – when we get bent about how things are now – I think of the greatest generation and how civilization itself hung in the balance.