After the end of the Second World War, the U.S. was prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies had been destroyed by the war.
The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information.
The COVID-19 pandemic of course which has taken more American lives than the total lost in World War II the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined, resulting acute economic distress from millions more.
It created a lot of confusion so the U.S. Weather Bureau said, OK. Let's start naming storms and they actually started by using the World War II alphabet.
Going back in time the First and Second World Wars were times of great creativity of language because people from different countries met each other and exchanged their words and words developed from there.
This December 7th marks exactly 79 years since the attack that brought the U.S. into World War II, and we'll have a report on that in just a couple minutes.