A one time girlfriend of mine was constantly bemused by my battling was on the bulletin boards in the 1980s. She suggested given my birthdate, between the end of the war in Europe and the war in the Pacific, that I was the replacement for WWII. I still love that woman. Looking to my childhood, my family, the adults, my teachers, my entire childhood exposure had experienced WWII. They were in the military, waited at home for word from them, were workers in the war effort. Everyone of them loyal Americans. Many had demonstrated their bravery in combat. My own father was in the spearhead invasion of Guadalcanal. He was there to look out in the morning and see the Navy had left him on the beach. He was there without an Army grunt in sight. I had an uncle who was welcomed ashore in Normandy on June the 6th, 1944 in a decidedly unfriendly manner. And from that I grew up with a much, much different impression of that war than people have today. Much different is not strong enough. Grossly different is more accurate. At this late date I can not recount anything but the most generalizations. Nor can I say the impression I got from that upbringing was the norm in the country. I can say they were all working class stiffs. They were the people who formed the majority of the US population in those days. As I have been in public discussion and political debate since 1980 (300 baud with the phone receiver pushed into rubber cups, yes, those days) I noticed the shift. At times I would comment on my impressions and memories and my education by way of showing it was different. At first people who were ten and more years my junior were telling I was wrong. That might lead to an exchange or two but it was amicable. That has changed. As of the last few years, people who are now twenty or more years my junior have become vociferous and accusatory in their responses. They freely make statements that are contrary to reality, the history books of my day and the common knowledge of the adults around me in my day. Even worse, they will be supported by others equally unknowledgable of history. And these attacks have taken a virulent form of sloganeering with neo-nazi and Hilter apologist being recurrant themes. The moderators of the newsgroup soc.history.war.world-war-ii go so far as to reject posts as "revisionist" even when the post contains factual history with URLs to official websites of universities. Revisionist? The world has been revised around me. Remember, the facts can not be revisionist. The facts can not change. Only your opinion of facts can change. There are no required opinions. At first I did not bother with the research, simply reciting from memory the history I knew and grew up with and was taught. But in this experience of being told I was revising things, I came to start doing the research to verify my memories. I found my memories to be substantially correct. In the process of that research I came upon a wealth more information. And in finding that information, I discovered what had formed the opinions of my parents and elders when growing up. Those things were facts that were in their newspapers and on their radios while they were growing up and through their adult lives. What they knew and what served the basis for their opinions was news to me but now I understand them. And that is what I want to present here. But be warned. If you read further you are going to read things that might lead you start calling me names. And I warn you that if you confirm what you read and repeat them you will likely be called names. Unless you are older than me, you are going to read things you have never been exposed to in your life. You are going to find that the common opinions of today have little to no foundation in fact. And you are going to read some sacred cows being skewered along the way. Not only people but events. This is not going to be gigabytes of the definitive WWII site on the web. I intend to concentrate only on the things that I and anyone can verify. I intend this to be the things you don't hear any more, changes of note, and other odd notes that may change your way of looking at what you have always heard. If this gets you thinking, there are plenty of search engines around. More information is just a few clicks away. Do not take my word for anything I say. Remember the words usually attributed to Robert A. Heinlein. Make up your own mind. It is the only freedom you truly have.