My Dad's Generation

My Dad's Generation

I found the following on the web. It really puts my Dad's generation into perspective.

"During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese
bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender
of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced; 22 aircraft carriers,
8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203
submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter
aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training
aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars,
3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks."

"We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services,
invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the
Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and
Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and
Germany.”

It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the
Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site.