While There Is Still Memory

[HARDCORE]

9-19-2018

“The biggest problem with panic is that it too is often short on memory!”

As such, maybe mankind is also doomed to repeat its mistakes, and sometimes with catastrophic effects? For if this was not true - then maybe countless lives might have been saved from “The Gods of War” during humanities short (but often violent) tenure upon this planet?

The greatest problem of all, however, is that ‘This Race of Ours’ often tends to rehash its fatal mistakes, after the fact, until the day arrives when we will finally get the job done for good and all! But not to worry mates, for should that day ever come, there will still be some, be they all in Hell, who will still deny any culpability. “After all, it is always the other guy’s doing, is it not?”
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Wars ranked by U.S. combat deaths alone..
Rank War Years Deaths
1 World War II 1941–45 291,557

2 American Civil War
1861–65 214,938

3 World War I 1917–18 53,402

4 Vietnam War 1955–75 47,424

5 Korean War 1950–53 33,686

6 American Revolutionary War 1775–83 8,000

7 Iraq War 2003-2011 3,836

8 War of 1812 1812–15 2,260

9 War in Afghanistan 2001-present 1,833

10 Mexican–American War 1846–48 1,733

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