Transportation Options Quotes
Each generation believes that technology and modernization is overtaking their way of life and forcing change upon them. In 1938, the very success of consumerism—that people have choices they never had before—placed stress on some people who had grown up making very few decisions as there was only one way to do almost everything. In the late 20th century having 500 television channels and thousands of more entertainment and educational possibilities with the Internet was a source of great stress for an entire generation of people who for most of their lives chose from the three major networks for their entertainment.
When the American troops invaded Okinawa, the individual Japanese soldiers and civilians would not surrender, even when completely surrounded and out numbered. Surrender was culturally dishonorable and the Japanese had been told by their leadership that if they did surrender the Americans would kill them anyway. Almost all the Japanese died and the United States forces had an astoundingly high casualty rate—37%. Truman was fearful that there might be hundreds of thousands American casualties in the subduing of the Japanese mainland. The atomic bomb solved that problem.
