You say “absurd difficulty”, I say “doesn’t coddle the weak”.

“...they just said to all the soldiers ‘just wing it’”

130k spread across 3 nations on 5 beaches which were all bigger than most of the islands fought over in the pacific. Plus Okinowa is similar in scale in terms of the naval force but they never contested an island garrisoned with a force large enough to warrant an assault force that big.

While not denigrating at all any of the Pacific opposed landings, nothing compares to Overlord for sheer scale. It was by far and above the biggest forced entry operation ever. As a comparison, Iwo Jima landed approximately 30K Marines in the assault waves. The airborne and glider assaults alone into Normandy were…

And you can use uppercase letters. They won’t bite.

Idiot? Guy makes what is in your estimation a mistake on a rather well written post and he’s an idiot? If he’s an idiot you’re a f*cking prick.

The deception program was also very detailed. The details are recorded in many books, but we ended by convincing the Germans that Gen. Patton was going to lead a fictitious First US Army Group across the channel to Calais.

Some hard lessons were learned in the Dieppe Raid and the various amphibious landings in the Mediterranean War as well.

I want to preface my response by saying that I absolutely am strongly in favor of gay rights and think that under anti-discrimination laws, a baker should have to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple just as for any other couple. But this wasn’t a wedding cake, it was a cake with a specific message on it saying…

He’s backing what he sees as freedom of speech; it’s pretty clear he does not agree with bigotry.

Did you miss the CD/DVD phase?

So Gay marriage is pretty much like regular marriage? Got it!

I’m pretty sure those games are available for free. Just shipped separately from the core OS - which makes way more sense. Just calm down.

They’re not charging for them. They’re already free in the Microsoft store. You just have to download the updated versions as opposed to the older versions that came with Windows 7

Yes but can it cut a bullet? Isao Machii sure did, I’m sure many of you will recall.

For fucks sake.... would you people PLEASE stop training robots how to use weapons?!

Oh dear God... get over yourself.
If you really think they’re comparable then leave the country. No I mean travel and see the world. When you get back and see what kind of utopia you actually live in, you’ll think twice about your comments.

Then you have no sense of scale or proportion. LOTS of countries, even democratic ones today in western europe, experience discrimination. It is of course wrong. But to equate that type of discrimination with the wholesale genocide committed by both the Germans and Japanese in WWII is stupid in the extreme.