WORLD WAR II WAS THE SINGLE DEADLIEST CONFLICT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years
This Memorial Day
I remember your sacrifice
I honor your courage
and I do not forget
That it was you who paid the high price
For Freedom
A total of 4l8,500 AMERICAN deaths are reported, which include MIA during WWII.
These young men and women of the Armed Forces sacrificed their lives in order that you may live in freedom.
REMEMBER them.
HONOR their memory.
And, most of all, respect the country these loyal Americans who loved their country ------ died for.
They served in the Armed Forces, the "heart beat" of the United States of America.
Bataan Death March
Although American trucks were available to transport the prisoners, the Japanese decided to march the Defenders of Bataan to their destinations. This march came to be known as the "Death March".
HOLOCAUST WARSAW GHETTO
Bones of anti-Nazi German women still are in the crematoriums in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, taken by the 3rd U.S. Army. Prisoners of all nationalities were tortured and killed." Pfc. W. Chichersky, April 14," 4/14/45,
Jewish prisoners being rounded up by the Germans at Warsaw l943
