#WWII

Paul Gaskin 🌲🍁🌲

PaulGaskinCFS

The #freedoms we enjoy came at an enormous cost. The contribution to #WWI and #WWII required mobilizing our people and our #NaturalResources. #Wood was vital to every soldier – for

Anna Biller

missannabiller

I was just thinking about how when I traveled abroad to film festivals, I had various male intellectuals lecture me about why you "can't" make movies like I make today.

Kumo 🌵

GhostKumo

Today, August 6th, marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. There is so much that can be said for this watershed moment of

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

Kurt Vonnegut’s remarks about his fellow soldiers in the 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, here taken without challenge by historian and author Antony Beevor in his book, ‘Ardennes 1944,’

Schooley

Rschooley

Are there any decent rock songs about the Civil War where the Union are the heroes? People saying The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Am I missing something? I

Yascha Mounk

Yascha_Mounk

At the end of WWII, the Allies feared that a Nazi terrorist group would put up resistance to them for months or years.But in the event, Golo Mann writes, there

Steppeland Bear

pogchump2

Went to probably the weirdest fucking mall today This sign was posted outside and I still don't fully know what it means Also there's a tiny WWII museum inside, which

✞Servant✞ن

MssLiberty

WWII: There has never been any written document of a plan to kill or exterminate Jews. However, we can look at the Talmud, and the book Germany Must Perish, written

gaming disorder pawg

roun_sa_ville

There are 3 historical narratives about Hiroshima and Nagasaki that emerge roughly in chronological order: the "heroic" narrative, the "tragic" narrative, and the "apocalyptic" narrative. The "heroic"

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

It’s important to remember that, although the 101st Airborne Division did suffer from a surfeit of small arms ammo, their artillery was in much better shape. The 101st had, in

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

In his analysis of Marine amphibious operations in the Central Pacific, Col. Joseph H. Alexander referred to that first “storm landing” at Tarawa atoll as a “vital proving ground” for

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian_Riedl

Chartstorm: Today, CBO released its new budget baseline. Here are actual and projected deficits:2019: $984 billion2020: $3,132 billion2021: $2,258 billion plus any added relief legislation2020-2031: $17,656 billion doubling the debt

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Still getting anxious mail from people who worry about how America will pay down its debt. Folks, we don't have to pay it down. Here's what happened after WWII: 1/

Makiko Itoh (伊藤牧子)

makiwi

Because of the US military COVID-19 cluster in Okinawa, I’ve seen some English (and some Chinese) language accounts bring up Okinawan independence. I went to look for any information on

Paisley Rekdal

PaisleyRekdal

1. Much to say here, including the fact that the de-politicization of US poetry started happening even earlier, after WWI, & ramped up after WWII. Much early 20th C US

Bruce Coleridge-Taylor Wright

bctw

Veterans Day means something to me. Besides being a pioneering judge, my dad was also a war hero who landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and was awarded medals for

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