2. 442 Regiment Combat Team http://members.aol.com/ItalyWW2/442RCT.htm From my view, perspective … because, since, as evidenced by…

3. Navajo Code Takers http://bingaman.senate.gov/features/codetalkers/ On December 22, 2000, the bill was signed that authorizes the President of the United States to award a gold medal, on behalf of the Congress, to each of the original twenty-nine Navajo Code Talkers, as well as a silver medal to each man who later qualified as a Navajo Code Talker. These medals are to express recognition by the United States of America and its citizens of the Navajo Code Talkers who distinguished themselves in performing a unique, highly successful communications operation that greatly assisted in saving countless lives and in hastening the end of World War II in the Pacific theater. -NYTimes January 3, 2001 From my view, perspective … because, since, as evidenced by…

4. Take A Stand: Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan It is my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude..." - Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 "Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.“ -Harry Truman, 1946 From my view, perspective … because, since, as evidenced by…