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I heard my mother screaming from a back bedroom and I fearfully headed that way. As I got to the bedroom door I heard my dad say, "That son of a bitch. That son of a bitch." The cause of this outburst by my parents was the picture above (American dead at Tarawa) which appeared on the cover of Life Magazine and showed the slaughter of American GI's. My dad's ouburst meant that he blamed President Roosevelt for the deaths. All of my parents friends were sick, angry, and so sad many were crying. One picture on one cover of the major magazine of the day caused horror in the country. What do you think would have happened to the war effort had today's media been running pictures of dead GI's every night for months and months for the liberals of that era?

My take is that Ike would have been kicked out after the slaughter at Normandy the planning for which was awful, and the intel that failed to show any hedgerows at all. Regardless, he'd have been canned for sure after the Battle of the Bulge where we were "surprised" by a massive German buildup and later assault. Our losses were 80,000 casualties that should never have been lost.

In the Pacific, our liberal elites would have accepted the early 1944 Japanese offer of cessation of hostilities which would have left them in charge of many islands and allowed their military to remain in charge of the country. We would be living in a vastly different world.

The picture below was not run til after the war. Think of the screaming had that run the week after they ran the first one. As a note, the picture at the top was run at the suggestion of the War Department which felt that the American pulic was becoming indifferent to the war.