tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17462849.post6044312800872488888..comments2023-10-04T09:46:55.782-07:00Comments on Edna's Place: Edna Purviance Extended Home on the Web: Ken Burns The WarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17462849.post-52054971994901300652007-10-07T11:02:00.000-07:002007-10-07T11:02:00.000-07:00"we fought and won WWII in three years and ten mon..."we fought and won WWII in three years and ten months"<BR/><BR/>As long as we remember WWII didn't start when the US got involved, it was going on for about two years before the US entered after Pearl Harbor. It was already a world war before the US got involved. And the US was not the only country fighting. Britain, Russia, the US and others did it together. The US was just lucky, with the Edna's Placehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930822209513131426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17462849.post-37719392214871394782007-09-28T12:59:00.000-07:002007-09-28T12:59:00.000-07:00The cost of that one span is most likely through t...The cost of that one span is most likely through the roof too.<BR/><BR/>Just shows when people are focused on doing something, they can do it. Maybe some, kicking and screaming, or whatever, but things can be done.<BR/><BR/>Very interesting too, that it could the government about six months to get the east coast to turn down their city lights, as things were being bombed along the east coast. (Edna's Placehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930822209513131426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17462849.post-84728205677999162722007-09-28T12:30:00.000-07:002007-09-28T12:30:00.000-07:00It is incredible how fast this country mobilized. ...It is incredible how fast this country mobilized. I live in N. California, and the replacement for the east span of the Bay Bridge is in its 15th year of construction, with another 2 years to go. Seventeen years to replace ONE SPAN OF ONE BRIDGE. by contrast, we fought and won WWII in three years and ten months.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com