Saturday, December 7, 2013

Remember Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor, the event that led America into World War 2, happened today. As a future Marine, this event strikes me at the strings of my heart. 

If you don't know a ton a about Pearl Harbor, here's a bit of information about it..

Japan bombed the Hawain Posts, Pearl Harbor, because America had embargos set on them and were sending supplies to the ally forces. 

This bombing infuriated the American public and forced them to call Japan and Germany to war. This war costed 500,000 military men their lives in America. You heard that right; 500,000 Americans gone. 

We mustn't allow their sacrifice to be in vein.. We must secure our constitutional freedoms that they died protecting. We mustn't let our oppressive government to take more and more of our freedoms. 

We must secure the right to consume whatever we want, say anything that isn't damaging, and have a home to ourselves without worrying that your door will be kicked down by the police. Those 500,000 men did not die in vein; people like Rand Paul, Penn Jilette, and many more libertarians are securing are freedoms slowly.

Take a moment and remember all the lives lost in world war 2 
CountryMilitaryCivilianDeaths
USSR13,600,0007,700,00021,300,000
China1,324,00010,000,00011,324,000
Germany3,250,0003,810,0007,060,000
Poland850,0006,000,0006,850,000
Japan--2,000,000
Yugoslavia300,0001,400,0001,706,000
Rumania520,000465,000985,000
France340,000470,000810,000
Hungary--750,000
Austria380,000145,000525,000
Greece--520,000
United States500,000-500,000
Italy330,00080,000410,000
Czechoslovakia--400,000
Great Britain326,00062,000388,000
Netherlands198,00012,000210,000
Belgium76,00012,00088,000
Finland--84,000
Canada39,000-39,000
India36,000-36,000
Australia29,000-29,000
Albania--28,000
Spain12,00010,00022,000
Bulgaria19,0002,00021,000
New Zealand12,000-12,000
Norway--10,262
South Africa9,000-9,000
Luxembourg--5,000
Denmark4,000-4,000
Total--56,125,262

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