I consider myself a scholar, and I spend a lot of time reading the most complex and challenging books I can find on World War II.  I also try to stay in touch with popular culture, however.  It is the common language spoken by all Americans, and it often addresses issues in a clear and fundamental way that a more intellectual approach cannot touch.

And so, rather than discuss issues of strategy and tactics this time out, praising this general and criticizing that one, identifying “correct” and “incorrect” decisions made by both sides during World War II, let me turn to the words of that great American artist and philosopher, Harry Lillis (“Bing”) Crosby …

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