OPINION: America, Time To Wake Up
OPINION: America, Time To Wake Up
By I.B. Freely and D. S. Mitchell
Myths
A recent crock of bullshit that has been pedaled is that the U.S. joined the Allies in WWII because of the holocaust. America entering WWII had nothing to do with the holocaust. Almost no one knew what was going on at the time, including several levels of the German government itself. The only reason America joined, two years after the war started, I might add, was because of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The American Imagination
The vast majority of fighting by American personnel was in the South Pacific in its war against Japan. Of the 16 million men and women who served in the U. S. military during WWII, only 2 million went to Europe. For some peculiar reason the war against the Nazis in their snazzy uniforms has taken on a supersized place in the American self-image. I will remind folks it would have been hard to kill Hitler from Guam. Not that it matters much.
