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Roosevelt and Truman were fine presidents

Donna Goodall, Waterford

Publication: The Day

Published 09/02/2010 12:00 AM
Updated 09/02/2010 04:29 AM

I would like to make a few comments about the letter titled "Japan can't accept all blame for World War II," published Aug. 22. First, I would like to say that Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman were two of our best presidents.
Is the letter writer getting Social Security and Medicare? If so, he and all the others getting it should thank these presidents. Or, better still, they could send it back.
We had no idea that Japan was going to pull a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Does the letter writer think any person would let all these boys get killed, plus lose all those warships? We did not know beforehand about the attacks on Pearl Harbor any more then we knew there would be terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, or that the federal building in Oklahoma City would be bombed.
The only wars that were necessary were the Civil War, World War I and World War II.
Franklin Roosevelt was elected four times, and not because he was a bad president. And, a Republican was in office when America went into the Great Depression.

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