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Dying for no cause whatsoever

Dying for no cause whatsoever

As America's Covid death toll surpasses its WWII losses, a reminder of another U.S. surrender a century ago.

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Wayne Arnold
Feb 01, 2022
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The pandemic has now killed as many Americans, proportionally, as the United States lost in World War II. At least 900,000 have died and the daily loss continues to accelerate.

These weren’t soldiers fighting to liberate lands from an invader, or to defend cherished principles such as liberty or democracy from fascism. There is no triumph to justify the…

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