@4 I am sad to read that, Dutch46.

Many Americans die with less than $1,500 in savings and some are completely impecunious.

Hi Doc Sarvis

I read Essence of Decision years ago about the Cuban Missile Crisis, which I'm sure you read or heard of.

After JFK made a televised speech about the potential of an "atomic war" with the USSR, people began buying nuclear fallout shelters and some built their own.

Ted Sorensen, the wordsmith behind JFK, made it all sound so patriotic, that JFK's approval rating increased after this speech about a potential apocalypse.

Time permitting later tonight, I'll post an OP with some factoids from "A Question of Character: A Life of JFK" by Thomas C. Reeves, as I did with Sinclair Lewis' 1927 tome Elmer Gantry.

Hi Doc Sarvis

1955 and 1956 were seminal years to learn about the inner workings of the Third Reich.

The Nazi underlings like you mentioned were finally released from Soviet gulags after serving their ten year sentences.

Their memoirs and interviews became a fount of personal information and Sir Anthony Hopkins jumped at the role of playing Der Fuhrer when one of those books became a made-for-TV film in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

Presently I am reading "A Question of Character: A Life of JFK" by Thomas C. Reeves.

In 1960, everybody knew a US invasion of Cuba was going to happen: newspapers, activists, DOD, Congress, and most importantly, Fidel Castro.

Under "Ike," Cuban ex-patriates were being trained by CIA in Guatemala ("Brigade 2506") and the "secret" was a sieve.

The only unknown was when the attack would take place and the precise location in Cuba.

The US was to provide no uniformed personnel or equipment, so CIA and USAF planes were disguised and the operation would therefore be a purely Cuban "counter-revolution."

The Bay of Pigs was unwisely chosen and Fidel's tremendous, well-motivated, and well-equipped army was ready for Brigade 2506.

The always victorious JFK had to suffer his first public black eye as POTUS and he furiously wanted to dismantle CIA, "casting it into the four winds."

"Stuff like this is why neither side is in the right in that conflict."

*** IDF Will Close Case Against Soldiers Who Murdered Unarmed Palestinian Family in West Bank ***

"The Israeli army is expected to dismiss a case against undercover Israeli special forces who shot to death two Palestinian children and their parents, despite not questioning the officers involved.

In March, Israeli forces opened fire on 37-year-old Ali Bani Odeh's vehicle while he was driving in the northern West Bank town of Tammun, killing him, his wife Waad (35), and Mohammad (5) and Othman (7).

Only Mustafa (8) and Khaled (12) survived the attack, though they sustained shrapnel wounds to the face and head."

~snip~

"Stupid social media!"

Sources:

They are only tasting horse paste.

And this sumbitch will receive world-class treatment from the US Army physicians at WRAMC, not fill out one damned piece of paper in triplicate or worry about getting an expensive medical bill, then bray that he's in better shape than an astronaut and that America has the best healthcare system in the world.

Watch.

Overweight good-for-nothing Cuban-Canadian poltroon who flees whenever a disaster or poor weather strikes Texas: "The stakes are, do we hand over the Congress and the country to a bunch of radical extremists?"

MAGA is not "radically extreme" enough for this foreigner?

Do America, Canada, Cuba, and the world a huge favor, Senor Cruz:

Salta!

The Chinese masses openly mock Dummkopf Trumpf and post their ridicule of the buffoon online: