“Today the guns are silent”

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).