1/ What made the leaders of WW2 so profound was that they viscerally knew the horrors of war. There was nothing about it that felt like a game with them. You get a sense of the depth of their grief that they had to send men to war.
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3/ On the night before the D-Day invasion Eisenhower did what he often did: took a walk among the soldiers. He knew no matter whether he the invasion succeeded or failed, he was sending more men to their death in battle than had ever before died in a single military operation.
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4/ He would say, "Are you scared, soldier?" And they would often say "Yes, Sir." Many of them put on war paint that night. Eisenhower would say to them "Just keep moving. That's the thing. Just keep moving." If you really think about those men today, it rips your heart to shreds.
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Roosevelt was a warmonger.
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FDR helped build the American debt system
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