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HIATUS | augustus. bloodhound. we are all one great band of brothers. mainly a world war ii blog. click for all wwii posts. i've no qualms for saying only a blind patriot does not fully embrace and enforce the constitution.

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Major Richard Winters (January 21, 1918 – January 2, 2011)

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Adolf Hitler hung in effigy in Times Square on his birthday in April 20, 1942. 

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Might be starting up this WWII blog again.

Maybe starting tomorrow.

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WELSH: Not much of a limp. WINTERS: l’ll survive. WELSH: How is it? WINTERS: Hurts. WELSH: War is hell.

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Dick Winters and Damian Lewis (around the time that HBO’s Band of Brothers was released)

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Japanese soldiers celebrate the fall of the Philippines and defeat of U.S. and Filipino defenders.

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When Kozo gets revenge on California.

If you slip and fall and get humiliated from Americans laughing at you, at least you know you can fire shells at the Ellwood oil rig. Oh, Kozo Nishino.

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September 14, 1940. A Japanese bomber plane flies overhead Chongqing, China near the Yangtze River.

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German anti-aircraft near a Channel coast of France. January 19, 1941.

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British Infantrymen stay huddled in a trench nearby Bardia which Italian forces have occupied. 

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American POWs celebrate the Fourth of July in Malaybalay camp in Mindanao, Philippines. 1942.

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revesdecine:

$200,000,000,000 spent after the attacks 

1,506,124 tonnes of debris removed from the site

3,051 children lost a parent

2,819 lives were taken in the attacks

1,609 people lost their wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend

99 days the buildings continued to burn

20 percent of Americans knew someone hurt/killed in the attacks

1 day changed the world.

We will never forget. 10 years.