"Today the guns are silent” | Rebellion

World War II had ended. On September 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur spoke to the world from the Battleship Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, “Today the guns are silent … the skies no longer rain death … the seas bear only commerce … men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace ….” That long war cost sixty million lives, and an estimated $1 trillion. It came only one generation after what President Woodrow Wilson called “the war to end all wars.” Since World War II – Korea – Vietnam, Iraq twice, not to speak of limited wars, political assassinations, personal revolts, rebellions, and social revolutions. (Source Unknown).