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Veteran's Day

i can only go back in time in my mind but to be five or fifty five years of age on May fifth at five fifty five a.m. age 5 at that time of day i'd be off sleeping and dreaming of shooting my stick guns while playing being a cowboy fighting indians but if i we're fifty five i'd be awake maybe sweating in remembrance of a day that was five plus five subtracted from today's date not knowing then that in the eighth month to come which is five plus three on the 14th four plus 1 two planes would drop the same bombs on two different cities killing many but ending the 2nd world war for what it was worth

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Richard Lamoureux

Date: 11/10/2019 5:38:00 PM

I personally think it was an awful choice even though it ended the war. They could have exploded it somewhere where there was no population and still demonstrated to the world how powerful they were.

Jeff Connelly
Date: 11/11/2019 5:13:00 AM

I agree Richard, but hate to say all the war torn cities, including European ones, though they still have their old world charm; are more modern than any USA city. I'm not advocating distruction, but in the long run the USA is the one that will collapse.