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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    With a total of 65 million deaths in WWII the number of future man years and generations lost is almost immeasurable. If the average person killed in WWII had 30 more years of life expectancy thats roughly 2 billion man years lost. When you add the generations of people who never existed youre looking at an astronomical number of man years lost. If half of the 65 million created the non exsistance of 4 generations with 3 children each thats 360 million wirh a life expect of say 60. That's over 20 billion more man years not counting the offspring of the generations themselves. Immeasurable anf beyond conprehension
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    I've always found this to be fascinating. What was the potential of even a few of those who died that might have somehow affected all humanity?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Think of the creativity/ productivity/ invention lost.
    Yep.
    It's indescribable what we've lost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Good point. This is an aspect that is seldom addressed. As time marches on it becomes haunting. A soldier who died in battle or an offspring that nevrt was could have been someone that changed the world we live in. We will simply never know.
    Whooop!!!
    You already said what I said.
    I think you said it better however.
    One must wonder what we have lost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    The Marines wore fatigues. The Army wore uniforms complete with ties.
    I hate ties.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rooster View Post
    Let me add a statistic on the same order of incredulity Cotton:
    Near the end of the war in Europe, U-boat crews were going on war patrols...knowing that only one out of six boats that departed would return.
    The mental aspect of going on whats basically a suicide mission is a place few will ever grasp. Life is so cheap in war, it disturbs me
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    Quote Originally Posted by BenjaminO View Post
    Whooop!!!
    You already said what I said.
    I think you said it better however.
    One must wonder what we have lost.
    No. You said it better
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    Presumption at Asunción

    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Wow - Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.
    Not as bad as the War of the Triple Alliance, when tiny Paraguay took on Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. It was 20 times as lethal as our Civil War, which was fought about the same time.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

    We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Think of the creativity/ productivity/ invention lost.








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    More of that would have been lost if the Axis had won.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

    We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.

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    Whom Are the Posters Trying to Impress With Required Interpretations?

    Quote Originally Posted by BenjaminO View Post
    I've always found this to be fascinating. What was the potential of even a few of those who died that might have somehow affected all humanity?
    Because of the Postwar class-biased indentured-servitude college "education," we've wasted more of our potential than was lost in the war. Populists would call what the rulers mandate the talented do for them "fascist." So the real tragedy is that those bullies lost the war over there, but won the peace on the home front.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

    We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.

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