Great Letter to the Editor

[Joey Liberal]

I saw this letter-to-the-editor in the Daily Oklahoman.
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I Wonder,

Easter Sunday, 1945: We landed four divisions on Okinawa. I was a young
officer in the 6th Marine Division. Our side killed 100,000 Japanese.
They killed or wounded 35,000 of our young men. This took three months.
Now that we've been in Iraq for five years, I wonder that if the present
administration had been in charge during World War II, would we today be
eating a lot of rice and fish, and speaking Japanese and German?



Col. Paul Laseman

U.S. Marine Corps, (Ret)

Oklahoma City