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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| The D-day That Never Was |
| 2009-12-13 |
| While the average age of a combat soldier in World War II was 26, the invasion of Japan would have required a massive infusion of fresh troops. Volunteers had to be 17. At 18, they could be drafted. High school kids like my father. Maybe he never would have gone to war. Maybe he would have fought and come home to march in those Veterans Day parades. Or maybe he would have been one of those white crosses above a beach in Japan. He'd never meet Mom. So, no me. Instead, he and tens of millions of Americans and Japanese exist today because the invasion of Japan didn't lop off their family tree. |
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