Comrade, get up and exercise.
In my experience, waking up sleepy people is hazardous.
Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The founders of the Republic didn't want to keep a large standing Army, which they regarded, rightly, as a threat to democracy. The early land defense of the country, therefore, relied on state militias, which had the added ability to take on local problems without the necessity of a Federal army having to intervene. After all, keep in mind that one of the cited reasons for the Revolution is that the English had kept large bodies of armed troops in the colonies.
Standing armies are always a problem and the current era might very well be starting to demonstrate that. Throughout the nation's history it usually didn't have large armies save in times of war, or leading up to war. But since the onset of the Cold War it has. Even now, in the post Cold War era, the Army is enormous compared to what it had been before World War Two.
Anyhow, the Second Amendment doesn't exist so that average people can take on a tyrannical government. It exists so that states can take on the British, basically. That hasn't stopped at least three decades of firearms owners being schooled in the thought that they might have take up arms against the government, with those claims uniformly coming from the right, although in the 1960s, there were those on the left who argued with some justification that oppressed minorities should arm to protect themselves.
Now, all of a sudden, I'm seeing anti Trump Conservatives suggest that the Second Amendment's clauses have what I've already noted as a mistaken view. And some on the left are goading the far right on this very topic, ie., now that we have an authoritarian, they're quiet. That shows, I think, how far down the road of chaos we've gotten. We haven't seen anything like that since the Civil War.
Moreover, there's some discussion going on in the military right now over what the duties are of military officers if they are ordered to take an illegal action. To some extent I think you can argue they already have been, with the Trump administration declaring the public lands along the Mexican border to be military reservations, but that actually has a long history. At any rate, Angry Staff Officer, whose blog we link in here, has put up two items recently on the military duties to disobey illegal orders. The Space Force has had one commanding officer relieved for criticizing J. D. Vance's territorially aggressive statements, something I'm sure she knew would occur when she made them. While we'd have to see what would actually happen, I suspect there's a lot of back barracks discussions going on amongst officers about the point at which they refuse to obey an illegal order from Trump.
Trump is a disaster, bringing the worse instincts in people to the top, and excusing them. This will get worse, and worse, if the 25th Amendment doesn't come into play. The man is an stupid, ancient, narcissist who may very well be bordering on insane. If Congress acted now, and truth be known a near majority likely grasp it and are too chicken to do anything, the situation could be salvaged.
The Germans murdered 1,313 Jewish former residents of the Bialystok Ghetto at Auschwitz. Most of them were children. Bialystok's ghetto had seen a failed uprising.
Over 100 people, mostly Italian civilians, were killed when a bomb planted by the Germans went off at the post office in Naples.
The Japanese murdered 97 American civilians who had been held on Wake Island under the orders of Japanese naval commander Shigematsu Sakaibara (酒井原 繁松). He'd be sentenced to death for the event after the war.
Sakaibara believed an American landing was imminent, which would not justify in any fashion the murders. It was, however, what led him to give the order. After at first denying the murders had occured, he would ultimately confess to them and express regret, but also maintain that the Allies had no authority to try him and that his sentence was unjust following the American use of nuclear weapons.
The New Georgia Campaign came to an end with an Allied victory.
Lassie Come Home, the first Lassie film, was released.
The event also featured entertainment from James Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Calloway, Milton Berle, Joe E. Lewis, Carole Landis and Ralph Bellamy.
Babe Ruth hit his last home run during the game, more of which can be read about here:
1943 All Pacific Recreation Fund – Service All-Stars vs Los Angeles & Hollywood
The 800 million dollars was equivalent to over 10.7 billion dollars in current funds.
The Germans occupied the Alpine passes with Italy in anticipation of the Italians surrendering.
The USSR recognized Egypt.
The US, Canada and British governments give limited recognition to the Free French Committee of National Liberation.
This poster is really emblematic of the era in several ways. The two young women have a very clean, 1940s appearance, with the large city behind them likewise having one. Very much how the nation saw itself at the time.
And the soldier is carrying the M1 Garand, which remained in service in general issue for the U.S. Army after the Second World War until after 1958, when the M14 started to go into production. The Army frankly never felt a real hurry to replace the M1, although sufficient numbers were made such that when the Army and Marine Corps first deployed to Vietnam in numbers, in 1965, the Garand was then found only in the Navy and the Reserves.