Tag: David Van Deusen

75 Years ago (May, 1945) the United States, Great Britain, The USSR, and Allies emerged victorious over Fascism in Europe; Nazi Germany surrendered.  While the price was high (hundreds-of-thousands of American soldiers dead, tens-of-millions more around the world), no one can rationally argue that the sacrifice was not needed. This was, after all, a Just War; one of the few which lacked any moral ambiguity. We were on the side of right, engaged in a historic battle against evil incarnate. Fascism had to be crushed if we were to not enter a new dark age of barbarism equipped with ledgers and death camps.  The drum beat of war had to be answered as no other response was capable of overcoming this existential threat to liberty.