As the casualties mounted, so did the questioning of american strategy. Historians use a letter from a mother as part of trying to give a sense of how done with this the American people are. It was bloody tarawa, bloody sipan, bloody pelleloo, bloody lati, bloody ewogima, bloody okanaa, bloody mindana,. all of three divisions. I mean, these are a body blows in terms of a war that. Listen, if you'd ever been through a pandemic and you're just ready to take the mask off and go back to normal and not have a lot of deaths, that's how America feels by 19 forty five.