Word: wwii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's military are depleted. From a high of 1.5 million troops in 1973, they have dwindled to a meager 300,000 individuals today. In the event of another massive conventional land war in Europe (in the tradition of WWI and WWII), it is estimated that another 650,000 men would be needed. Yet it would take at least 110 days for the first individual to be drafted, and another 40 days before 100,000 soldiers could be conscripted. This state of affairs would result in dire consequences for our nation's security. Registration in itself does not impose great...
Therefore, I urge you as strongly as I can to undertake the following one year program: (1) issue a proclamation restoring full citizenship to all those who opposed or refused to participate in the illegal, immoral and genocidal wars of naked and raw aggression by our government since WWII, whatever their reasons for doing so (they are our real Heroes not the so-called POWs); (2) propose the immediate reduction of our monstrous military budget by at least 25%, suggest a gradual yearly reduction of that budget to $25 billion annually and military forces to 500,000, composed of highly...
...niceties burned away. Sentences are marched out without a full complement of nouns and verbs. Oddly, the very flatness of his writing leaves the horizon clear for the experiences he describes. There may be more comprehensive illustrated histories of the war, but none is likely to come closer than WWII to conveying the feeling of how it was to be there...
...WWII represents a return to the subject that James Jones has never really left. For the past several years he has been working on Whistle, a long novel that will cap the war trilogy of From Here to Eternity (1951) and The Thin Red Line...
Jones set aside his novel for six months to write WWII. "This project fascinated me," he says. "It gave me the chance to editorialize in a way that my novels do not. When I write fiction, I have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of my characters. In WWII I could concentrate...