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? As the new millennium approaches, there is more and more talk of apocalyptic type events. Y2K, world wide famine, diseases that will wipe out 70% of out population, giant meteors bringing upon us the fate of the dinosaurs. These all seem highly unlikely. Th ....

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.... Hitler’s invasion of Poland; the third Reich marched across Europe until only Britain held fast. The Japanese assault brought America into war against both Hitler and Hirohito. It would be the bloodiest conflict ever: 100 million men bore arms, and 30 million civilians, many of them European Jews, would die before Berlin fell in May 1945 and, in August of that year, the United States would drop two atomic bombs on Japan- ending the war and changing the world.” (Hirsh) What was FDR thinking those 18 minutes he sat still and silent, when he learned Pearl Harbor had been bombed? Was he thinking that maybe he should have gotten involved soo ....