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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts) Sun Dec 7, 2014, 04:46 PM Dec 2014

Seventy-three years of war. [View all]

Seventy-three years ago today, Japanese forces bombed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.

We have been at war for every single one of the seventy-three years since.

...and someone's getting paid for it. It ain't you, or me, but that's fact.

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Seventy-three years of war. [View all] WilliamPitt Dec 2014 OP

sad fact. marym625 Dec 2014 #1

I could make a case for the beginnings of the war at Sarajevo in 1914. Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #2

Longer than that, even, counting our occupations and interventions in Latin America Scootaloo Dec 2014 #4

Yep, I'll be 75 in July of next year and war has always been....n/t monmouth4 Dec 2014 #3

Ike warned us, and he was there at the beginning... Cooley Hurd Dec 2014 #5

And for most of the 165 years before then. Spider Jerusalem Dec 2014 #6

America indulges in a lot of false advertising and self deception. Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #7

7+ decades that should live in INFAMY Martin Eden Dec 2014 #8

there is an old song olddots Dec 2014 #9

its the way of Howler Dec 2014 #10

OK I'll bite. Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #11