Honestly, this is pretty punk rock. Iowans will be trained at birth to be inured to death, like the Spartans.
Iowa state motto: Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive
Study reveals surprising trend among nearly half of Tesla drivers: 'More ... emotionally charged than they ever expected'
I'm sad for those who bought them prior to 2020.
My recollection had me looking at Manchester's wiki page. I guess the Kennedy family and he had a falling out over the book they asked him to write.
Will take that rec for the Halberstam book.
I think I read it in William Manchester's "The Glory and the Dream".
I heard a resounding recommendation for David McCullogh's "Truman" on my british WWII pod the other day. Said...the quality of the writing/readability was excellent
I'm seeing other bsky posts that say he included the Germans who came over. Possibly implying that they were good immigrants because they were fair skinned
List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia
There is a great story about the scientists in their first forray into a US department store shopping for undergarments for their wives. The US sizes were different from the European sizes they knew so they were conspicuous in their use of their slide rules to do the conversions and the US handlers were flabbergasted at them breaking cover so obviously.
Also, that people with cancer will definitely die because of the halt to vital research. Also, that my son was denied a US education in the hard sciences because his internship might compete with Elon's business
once I was doing a comparative percentages of deaths for the Civil War for the US and WWI for the Commonwealth.
The US recovered from the Civil War because of all the immigration but the UK more so than the Commonwealth populations were really gouged by WW1.
Per the googles... 6% of the UK adult population died in WW1 and 2.5% of the US total population died in the Civil War.