re: FDR was an awful president and MacArthur was an awful general.

We can all sit here and armchair quarterback but in listening to my late grandmother who was raising two children, alone, during the Depression, had it not been for FDR and Huey Long, my grandmother and my aunt and daddy would have starved to death.

Those were different times none of us "soft" motherfrickers know anything about.

As to MacArthur, my dad was a Marine fighting in the S. Pacific. He never like Macarthur nor did my grandmother. Grandmother said he got too many boys killed because of his ego. She and my daddy were happy when Truman canned him.

Further, my grandmother would shoot your arse if you said anything about Harry S Truman. She said a zillion times had he not dropped those bombs, my daddy and thousands of other young Marines and soldiers would no doubt have died during invasions of Japan.

So, say what you want, those are opinions of people who lived it.