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The Washington Post reports
A simple data point offered by a college commencement speaker jumped out at [non-employee Washington Post contributor Philip Bump] before being borne away on the tide of immediacy.
[...]The speaker was ABC journalist Martha Raddatz, and the point is [...]: The graduates have spent half their lives with America at war.
It's a startling idea, but an incorrect one. The percentage is almost certainly much higher than that.
Using somewhat subjective definitions of "at war"--Korea counts but Kosovo doesn't in our analysis, for example--we endeavored to figure out how much of each person's life has been spent with America at war. We used whole years for both the age and the war, so the brief Gulf War is given a full year, and World War II includes 1941. These are estimates.
The page contains a graphic that allows you to see what portion of your lifetime the USA has been formally engaged in hostilities according to your birth year.
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Tuesday June 23 2015, @04:56AM
What saddens me about the whole holocaust thing is that now it is only about the Jews. Their were well over a million Roma killed and they never got a homeland and are still treated like shit in parts of E Europe and not much better anywhere else. Then of course there were the others, homosexuals, the crippled including in the mind, and so on.
(Score: 3, Informative) by AnonTechie on Tuesday June 23 2015, @07:55AM
What about the 20 Million Russians who died in World War II ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union [wikipedia.org]
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 23 2015, @01:56PM
I honestly have NOT forgotten the Russians. Russia has just recently completed their Memorial Day observances, complete with the parades in Red Square. I "observed" a lot of that on Russian Times. The commentary posted to the articles was often embarrassing - US people posted a lot of hateful crap, and some Euros did as well. For my part, I posted little, and what I posted was respectful.
As bad as my kinfolk had it during WW2 (mostly in the Pacific, fighting Japanese) it doesn't hold a candle to ten divisions sweeping across the homeland, and placing the capital under seige.
And, of course, the Chinese didn't have it any better.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 23 2015, @01:16PM
Jews constituted about half of the victims, using one definition. Using the broadest definition, many more non-Jewish victims died in the Holocaust. It is a human tragedy, but due to the political and PR efforts of Jews in the United States it has come to be regarded as a solely Jewish event. Political Science professor Norman Finkelstein [amazon.com] has written several well-documented books on how the Holocaust has been used to gain money and power.
Washington DC delenda est.