There are few historians who would challenge the FACT that the funding of WORLD War I, World War II, the KOREAN War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.

When I was a youngster growing up in SOUTH Dakota, we NEVER REFERRED to the national debt, it was ALWAYS referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

The only VACATION I've had was the four years and 11 MONTHS I put in with the Air Force in WORLD War II.

My fascination with war is because my DAD was in World War II, and my BROTHER was in VIETNAM.

We learned in World War II that no SINGLE nation HOLDS a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we MUST fight for the WEAK and PROMOTE democracy.

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World WAR II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never HEARD about VITAMINS.

We've talked and written about the WORLD WAR so MUCH that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is GONE. The drama came to an end and it is HISTORY.

Remember, we KNOW the END of the STORY of World WAR II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the OUTCOME was by no means certain.

From the AMERICAN Revolution RIGHT up to the Second World War, the U.S. was more LIKELY to provoke suspicion AMONG members of the British establishment than deferential approval. It was SEEN - with good cause - not just as a potential rival for empire, but also as dangerously egalitarian, worryingly innovatory, and excessively democratic.

I was brought up in the WAR. I was an adolescent in the SECOND WORLD War. And I did witness in LONDON a GREAT deal of the Blitz.

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my GENERATION went into the SECOND World War and it UNITED the Finnish NATION, so I do not see any more wounds.