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This is the answer to a simple question posed by Richard Dean, A.K.A., RAO. Richard is one of my good friends at The Conservative Aiiliance. His question was most timely with American events of late. For that I thank you RAO:

Imagine if you will the world in the years after World War II…

America addressed its greatest threat to date. With the help of our allies of the day we had prevailed.

In the few long years previous Adolf Hitler and his insane allies in Europe pushed forward with their incessant combined war machine in an attempt to establish what they perceived to be the perfect world ruled by their version of the perfect race.

At the same time, many, many miles from the swastika, the seemingly unstoppable hoards of Emperor Hirohito pushed to establish his own idea of what the world should be. The symbol of the rising sun brought nothing but pain and darkness all through the Pacific theater.

Once it was over the power and strength of America had again proven it was indeed a force of such magnitude it would be unwise to attract our military ire. Our strength had once again proven it was as wise to carry and sometimes utilize a big stick as it is to use the same lumber to perhaps build a bridge in different times.  We learned a hard lesson the bridges are needed but it is just as important to keep the retired clubs of war close at hand.  Along with our allies we had risen to first a defensive and then an offensive pinnacle never before seen in the history of the world.

V-day had finally arrived! In America the ticker tape parades were in full swing. The motorcades filled with our surviving heroes filed through every major city in America as we rejoiced the bittersweet exultation of victory mixed with the still bleeding sorrow of all the heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice.   American patriotism had reached its zenith.

Then the combined citizenship of America, as a culture, based on the true American tradition, generated a machine of our own that once again could not be stopped by outside forces.

The factories that produced tanks and military transport vehicles retooled and once again began to build automobiles and trucks to help transport our still close to wholly patriotic American citizenship. The makers of our amazing flying machines utilized the forced technological advances it sadly seems only a war can produce, to begin to build a network of transportation few in history could imagine let alone realize. Countless companies mirrored true American ingenuity by performing entrepreneurial feats of magic. In many, many cases the members of corporate America turned their production lines a full one hundred eighty degrees so they could not only survive but excel in this new found world of peace. As an example; everyone ever even interested in sport fishing has heard of the Zebco Rod and Reel Company. Few realize “Zebco” is part of the post war transition from the “Zero Hour Bomb Company” to a company dedicated to supplying and promoting a sport of enjoyment and relaxation.   (…This story is seemingly unrelated to war when scrutinized but nonetheless the true spirit of the American attitude of the day.)

Such stories of the post war American entrepreneurial spirit of survival are endless.