The following appeared in the June/July 2018 edition of Allegiant Air's Sunseeker magazine and is copyrighted. Email knewbern@yournovel.com for reprint rights.
Photo courtesy of National World War II Museum Witnessed from generation to generation, country to country, there is a price on freedom. Horrifically costly was World War II, not in money, but in death. Hailed as “the war that changed the world,” the numbers are numbing: More than 65 million people died, mostly civilians. Estimated battle dead are United Kingdom - 383,000; America – 405,000; Japan – 850,000; Germany – 3,180,000; China - 3,500,000; Russia - 10,000,000. Non-battle mortalities were much steeper, including six million Jews and up to 200,000 in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb drops. Freedom. You’d think we would have learned our lesson after World War I, dubbed “The War to
