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A sad comparison
From July 1940 to VJ day in August 1945 the United States produced a staggering $183 billion in arms. America’s shipyards launched 141 aircraft carriers, eight battleships, 807 cruisers, destroyers and destroyer escorts, 203 submarines and almost 52 million tons of merchant shipping. US factories turned out 88,410 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces and 640,000 Jeeps. The United States produced 324,750 aircraft averaging 170 per day since 1942.
And we can’t provide our own citizens face masks, gloves and hand-sanitizer? C’mon. Gen. George Patton would slap Trump’s face.
Stevan Alburty
Liberty Lake