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After thought
I am grateful for the privilege of having served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II with a vibrant group of well schooled men, well trained to perform the duties they were assigned, and to work in harmony with the many other facets of our armed services. We were consumed and dedicated to but one common goal, to turn Germany and Hitler?s Third Reich into a pile of rubble, and to reduce the Empire of the Rising Sun and its war lords into a speck of dust in the cosmos of eternity.
The combined effort of the U.S. Armed Forces achieved this goal, but unfortunately our politicians let us down or there would never have been a divided Germany, and the ungodly Russian communist regime would not have been handed the East European Block countries on a silver platter, and Japan would have been made to pay a much greater price for its pursuit of World domination.