You think the War is over?

American History has proven a number of things since the beginning days of our Nation. One thing that seems to be connected to every single year that we've been a Country, surrounds the fact that we've been under assault since day one. It seems to me that somebody always wants to come over here, kill us all and take our stuff.

As a good place to start the proof section for that, we can use the American Revolution and the things that happened from 1776 to 1876. That's only a hundred years and it brings us to a time frame that's just a bit beyond the Civil War.

To assign some degree of relativity to those dates, let me say that my Grandmother was born in 1890. A generation after that, we were already engaged in the First World War.

My father was born in 1906. Even though he was too young to fight in that one, I had an Uncle who was a dough boy during that time. To my knowledge, he's the only one from my family that fought in the trenches. He married my father's sister, Helen Butler.

His name was Francis Shirley Hebert. We called him Uncle Shirley and he was a cool old man who loved to attend the family gatherings on Thanksgiving Day. When he died, I asked for his uniform but his wife, my aunt, threw it away. So much for my family's involvement in the First one.

Despite the fact that December 7, 1941 is typically referred to as the day we entered World War II, that isn't exactly true. That just happens to be the day that we generally refer to as the beginning of our part in it that involved shooting.

To be more accurate, I say that World War II began the day after World War I ended. Sound crazy? Well, it isn't.

That's the day that a German soldier named Guerdian started his designs to build the under carriage for the German tanks that would be used in the opening battles of World War II. Since the Treaty of Versailles forbid Germany to rebuild their Army, he claimed the undercarriage was designed for agricultural equipment. It was a lie and from that, there's no doubt that the planning for the Second World War began before the ink was dry on the Peace Treaty from the First World War..

Let's not forget to mention Herrman Goering. He and Hitler hooked up after Goering served as a fighter pilot in WWI and did so when Goering worked as a commercial pilot honing his skills for the next World War.

Since everyone should know about Blitzkrieg warfare, The Afrika Corp and the Battle of the Bulge, let's get on with the rest of the story without getting into the tank's role in all the battles. Instead of chalking up all the deaths from that, let's take a brief look at some of the results from air power.

Coventry, November 15, 1940. That was more than a year before Pearl Harbor. The Germans bombed Coventry on that date and that, more than anything, began the air war against civilians as an effective tool of war. I googled that and discovered that there are varying reports regarding civilian deaths from the air raid on Coventry.

In any event, some say there were 500 killed and others say 1,000. Let's see what happened after that and take a look at Churchill's mandate to send a response even though their strongest ally, The USA, was totally against anything outside of targeting military and industrial targets. Don't forget that piece of shit document called the Geneva Convention. For those who did not sign on to it, using it for toilet paper was their choice.

Here's a list of aerial bombardments after Coventry. It's pretty inclusive and covers many missions:

Dresden had some claims of losing 500,000 lives. After the war, a commission of 13 prominent German Scientists headed by Rolf Dieter Mueller, claimed that the half million casualty number was generated by the Nazi propaganda machine and in fact, the real number was closer to the 25,000 to 50,000 range. In any event, the Nazi war machine started all of that, not the Allies.

Hamburg is another matter. In July of 1943 Hamburg got it. There were estimates of 42,600 deaths and 37,000 wounded. Skipping many aerial assaults in the European Theatre and moving toward the Pacific, let's take a look at Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hiroshima, 150,000. Nagasaki, 75,000. Tokyo, 80,000 to 130,000. I'm pretty sure that Tokyo was in March of 1945. Moving along to Vietnam, Wikipedia claims that somewhere between 800,000 and 3.1 million were killed during that war. Who knows?

Some of you may say: "So what?". I say: "Here's what".

Computer research indicates that there have been 124,000 deaths that resulted from terrorists. I say that's grossly under estimated but who in the hell am I to refute their statistics?

The moral of the story is this: We need to pay attention to history and even though our enemies don't have the capacity to send 1,000 plane raid to bomb New York City, they did pull off an air raid on 9/11 that created more casualties than Pearl Harbor suffered on December 7, 1941.

Even though our enemies don't have the capacity to build an invasion fleet the size of the ones we used during D day, they've put millions upon millions of their people on our home land by using immigration as their tool for invasion.

Doubt that? Do your homework and you'll see that it's true. For now, I will leave you with that initial thought before I collect more statistics to demonstrate what's going on right now. Enjoy the read and please feel motivated to do a little searching on your own. More to come.

Tim