I think it’s one of the dumbest things ever. But I think that of a lot of fads and fashions as well.

It’s the 70th anniversary.

There was a simpler time, when we recognized enemies waging war on us, declared war on them, and soundly defeated them.

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Here’s a round up at the WaPo of today’s war bird flyover of the Mall. When I was a kid, there used to be an AT-6 Texan parked at Bishop Airport, in Flint. It wasn’t that old at the time. I’d note that one of the planes had to make an emergency landing at DCA, disrupting air traffic there. It looked like a P-40.

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Remembering Okinawa.

There was a reason we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it wasn’t because we were racists. That saved hundreds of thousand of lives, both of American troops and civilians in China.

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“’All told, Okinawa killed 12,500 Americans and wounded approximately 50,000. It was the U.S. Navy’s biggest killer, with 4,907 sailor deaths and 4,874 wounded. Japan lost an estimated 75,000 military dead. As for civilians? Estimates run from 50,000 to 110,000.’ Today, America is afraid of offending a few savages with cartoons.”