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    Good things from WW2

    I'm skipping the Holocaust and that to ask you guys what good things you think came out of WW2.

    I'll just say one, jet technology

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    Quote Originally Posted by canadian boy
    I'm skipping the Holocaust and that to ask you guys what good things you think came out of WW2.

    I'll just say one, jet technology
    You incoherent sentence suggests that you believe the Holocaust is a good thing, and since that is unassailable, you're asking us what else is good. Is that what you are saying, because I would hope not.
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    going along that line of reasoning, I'll say all the other the atrocities that aren't considered part of the holocaust(e.g. Rape of Nanking, Bataan Death March)
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    Whoops

    That was an accident, I badly worded that,sorry about that.

    I meant, I'm skippin all the bad stuff like the holocaust so we couldconcetrate on the good stuff

    Sorry again

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    Here's a few to start things out:

    -Japan and Germany rising from the ashes as democracies
    -Having actually used the atomic bomb so that its proven destructive power made leaders less likely to use it during the Cold War
    -The computer
    -Huge advances in radar
    -The GI Bill for the US servicemember (funding for college)
    -Paved the way for desegregation in the US military just following the war based on the proven combat records of black units
    -The jeep was born (I don't own one, but they're still cool)
    "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

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    Quote Originally Posted by shek
    Here's a few to start things out:

    -Japan and Germany rising from the ashes as democracies
    -Having actually used the atomic bomb so that its proven destructive power made leaders less likely to use it during the Cold War
    -The computer
    -Huge advances in radar
    -The GI Bill for the US servicemember (funding for college)
    -Paved the way for desegregation in the US military just following the war based on the proven combat records of black units
    -The jeep was born (I don't own one, but they're still cool)
    birth of industrial engineering/production engineering.
    huge advances in material science and metallurgy.
    the advances in rocket science.
    ......
    keep adding guys

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    The weakening and decline of the European imperialist powers...

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    Great development of armored, naval, aerial, and infantry tactics and weapons.
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    The History Channel.

    Modern wargaming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shek
    Japan and Germany rising from the ashes as democracies
    Wasn't Hitler elected?

    You forgot to add the Space Programme. The V2's raining down on Lodon and Antwrep at least had a positive effect in that they were the ansestots of the Vostock's and the Saturn V's.
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    The dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan

    I was aboard my ship anchored in Buckner Bay, Naha, Okinawa when the word came down 15 August 1945 that Japan had surrendered.
    Prior to that date, the ship hadn't been told that President Harry Truman authorized the dropping of two Atomic bombs on Japan.
    As a potential participant in the forthcoming invasion of Japan, I among all my fellow shipmates, ships in the Bay, and the numerous troops on Okinawa, were all very happy we wouldn't now have to face the invasion of Japan. and WW ll was finally over.
    The atomic bombs killed thousands of Japanese but saved a possible million American troop if we had invaded Japan.
    I thought it was a wonderful gift for all US military.

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    1) The world returning to much more pleasant and peaceful days.
    2) The mood in the U.S. and Europe after WWII the culture flourished as did everything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vaughn
    The dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan

    I was aboard my ship anchored in Buckner Bay, Naha, Okinawa when the word came down 15 August 1945 that Japan had surrendered.
    Prior to that date, the ship hadn't been told that President Harry Truman authorized the dropping of two Atomic bombs on Japan.
    As a potential participant in the forthcoming invasion of Japan, I among all my fellow shipmates, ships in the Bay, and the numerous troops on Okinawa, were all very happy we wouldn't now have to face the invasion of Japan. and WW ll was finally over.
    The atomic bombs killed thousands of Japanese but saved a possible million American troop if we had invaded Japan.
    I thought it was a wonderful gift for all US military.
    So your on the average 72-80 years old Vaughn? And were in Buckner Bay?
    What ship were you on? Im interested in knowing.
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    Double posted - sorry about that!
    Last edited by vaughn; 06 Jan 06, at 19:04.

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