In contrast to today's "consumer economy" making so much noise about the cost of gas, a united people adjusted to gas rationing and halted automobile production by Volunteerism and Victory Gardens. Also interesting were his comments (L1) on the post-war changes in international finance centers and the post-war massive welfare expansion. Such incoherence was perhaps presaged by the intra-war race riots in Detroit and Philadelphia described in Childers' Scope and Lecture 27 (L27): their violence contrasted vividly with the non-violence of the horrific 1942 "relocation" of Japanese-Americans (L27). The two decades since have displayed a lack of coherence in the U.S direction. I highly recommend the course Scope where Childers points out that WW2 defined an epoch of human history from which the world did not begin transition until the 21st century. My son and I, both Army veterans, would later stand together on the Allied side of the Remagen Bridge remains in respectful silence for both our patriarch and the many who horrifically died there as Germany desperately tried to destroy that bridge.Ĭhilders' excellent 1998 course is not only a wonderfully organized story about WW2 it is the story of men (and women) coping with horrendously difficult circumstances and decisions. He'd also been involved in the Battle of the Bulge. They were the second wave across the Bridge at Remagen into Germany. ![]() One day during high school, my father showed me a photo of his WW2 platoon of about 30 soldiers. As a youngster, I spent many hours on the floor of my local library reading about World War II. ![]() Extremely Well Done My father served in the US Army's efforts against Germany in WW2.
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