On april twelfth, just as things are really starting to get nasty on okanow itself in the land combat, the american president, who has served more time in office than any other president in American history, dies. Roosevelt was famously trying to get a little of his strength back in warm springs, georgia, when he's having his portrait painted and tells the people in the room that he's got a terrible headache,. He succumbs very quickly to a cerebral hemorrhage, stroke type incident. This is not a surprise any one who was around the man at all.
When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.