Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

TSA confiscated this because it was a replica of a firearm...I'd laugh if it wasn't so pathetic.

 

ound in Christian News (a Lutheran journal published in New Haven, Missouri) published on 4 February 2002 the following:
In 1960, Robert Menard was a commander aboard the USS Constellation when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces.
Fifteen years had passed since VJ Day, most of those at the meeting were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in each other.
Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland U.S. forces in what Japan had to know was a pathetic state of unreadiness, Japan had not simply invaded the West Coast.
Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese commander's face as he frankly answered the question.
'You are right,' he told the Americans. 'We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand.'
A lengthy discussion on the quote
Talk:Isoroku Yamamoto - Wikiquote

it is 'disputed' only because the wonks can't point to a written document with the quote.

National Redoubt (Switzerland) - Wikipedia
The National Redoubt has been the subject of debate in Swiss society, with many fortifications decommissioned by the early 21st century.

This is owing to the common access to nukes...

While many of the arty bunkers are now 'museums' the tubes are still in place with ammo in the magazines. You know, sorta still available
The New Lives of Decommissioned Swiss Army Bunkers has photos.

 

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