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I'm going to take a little break from the World War One series today being that this week is the 50th anniversary of the

or the 40th anniversary sorry about that of the invasion of Grenada. So Thomas wanted to talk about that and yeah I was eager to hear about it because being as old as I am I remember exactly where I was the day that it happened and it came across the radio, not even the TV, not the internet, the radio.

So take it away, Thomas.

It's an important development at Indiana

as you remember, there was a lot of people.

I mean Reagan was negotiating a hostile Congress at that time.

And in addition to that, there was just sort of the traditional kind of opponents of the Reagan Coalition who viewed any kind of direct action

anywhere on this planet against Soviet proxies, you know, to be somehow an escalation of

hostilities that ran risk of of sabotaging, you know, the delicate balance of power.

And even people had a more charitable view.

There was kind of just like this dismissive

kind of bumper sticker logic of, oh oh that's just because Reagan had to

had to chalk up a victory after the bombing of the Marine barracks and it was just a

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