United States Army Quotes
VD: Worst of the Three.
Each day of WWII, 18,000 American servicemen were incapacitated by Venereal Disease --- more than by battle wounds on most days. This prevention poster appeared in Army bases throughout the world from 1942-1944. The “Three” were Hitler, Hirohito, and a skeletal “woman of the evening”. This was a shocking poster for many servicemen (and civilians) as the WWII attitudes were such that for the vast majority of Americans, nothing would be worse than Hitler and Hirohito.
U. S. Army, Office of the Army Surgeon General, Venereal Disease Prevention Poster, 1942
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There were no easy cures for these venereal diseases then. The War Department (What it was called in those days.) used patriotism to encourage celibacy.
This quotation is one of the most amazing of its era. In addition to establishing the importance of study of the human body itself, and the importance of empiricism, but it is one of the first declarations of the importance of prevention in the health arena.
Botswana is one of the few African national successes at that time. It is the world’s largest diamond exporter and unlike many other nations, wealthy in natural resources like Saudi Arabia or Iran, Botswana became a multi-party democracy upon independence and has remained that ever since.
This quotation is important because there are some who believed that the professional German Soldiers did not respect Hitler and his murderous policies. This quotation shows that at least publicly Donitz had no problem extolling Hitler above all others. After the war Donitz was found guilty of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and using thousands of slave laborers in his shipyards. He was sentenced to 10 years, one of the lightest sentences if the German War Crimes Trials.
He was one of the few world leaders who publicly decried the racism that was implicit in much of the well-meaning discussion of the AIDS problem in the world in general and Africa in particular. However right about the racism issue me might have been, he allowed that to color and shape his terrible policies regarding AIDS. He argued that those urging the use of antiretroviral drugs were just trying to make more money when they would do no good. Use of condoms was an attempt to diminish the Black world population. He and his Health Minister maintained that AIDS was not caused by a virus—that condoms would not help. And he would not approve any kind of social marketing to try and reduce promiscuous sex or even try and promote pre-marital chastity. Other African nations, with even fewer resources (like Uganda) reduced its AIDS rate of transmission markedly until proper retroviral drug regimens were developed and then used them right away. South Africa instead, relied on traditional herbs and other useless superstitious solutions. The result was a much higher AIDS rate than every other country of the world. Millions of South Africans died needlessly as a direct result of his terrible choice of policies. Like many South African leaders, Mbeki was a brilliant man who had a very limited education as schools were boycotted in the struggle against the apartheid state. He was ignorant about science, and viewed science as a white thing and not part of the black tradition.
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. As the oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States of America was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself to be a continuation of the Continental Army, and thus considers its institutional inception to be the origin of that armed force in 1775.
