God has blessed me with many things and there is one that is a watershed for all the rest. Thank God we didn't have the same liberal media and "anti-war" protestors during World War II. Sacrifice is something that is woven into the history of this great country. If they used troop casualties as a basis for fighting on against the Axis powers I wouldn't be here blogging. America suffered 400,000 deaths during that conflict. Did the people of that era waver and lose faith? We are living proof of their resolve. Unfortunately their are some today that don't have that backbone. If they used their logic for getting out of Iraq it would be Roosevelt's fault for getting all those soldiers killed. Hell, Roosevelt was provoking the Germans and Japanese with his meddling. The Germans and Japanese were poor countries after all. They were just trying to provide for their people. Who really cared about those Poles and Chinese that were brutalized by their occupation. It' s none of our business. Pearl Harbor, just an overeaction by the Japanese. They didn't invade the mainland after all. Roosevelt cutoff oil and steel shipments to the Japanese. The emperor obviously didn't have a choice. Roosevelt pushed the Japanese into war. If we would just try to understand the Germans and Japanese. Maybe we could just come to an accommodation and just let them have all the land they want? As long as they don't attack us again. Well, the overwhelming majority agreed to defeat these countries no matter the cost. And cost it did. There wasn't an American who wasn't touched by the affects of this war. Over 1.2 million Americans were either killed or wounded. If there ever was a reason to sue for peace I'd say that would be a good reason to do it. As for me and my family, we thank those brave people for not backing down in the face of true adversity. For because my father and my wife's grandfather joined the US Army because of the kindness the American GI's showed the Filipinos. That is how my family came to this great country. Otherwise I'd be in the Philippines probably in a rice patty speaking Japanese. If somebody asked me today if all that misery and death was worth it? I'd say yes.