Final Project
In 1983, in one of the most bizarre moments in US History, the massive US Army invaded the Caribbean nation of Grenada. The US is 25,000 times as big as Grenada — a tiny island nation with a population smaller than San Angelo, Texas, and Greeley, Colorado with an Army of only 1,000 men. The US rolled in with tanks, helicopters, and aircraft carriers to defeat the new Marxist government, completing the invasion in only 3 days. 69 Grenadian citizens died in only 3 days, a massacre that on a per capita comparison would mean the death of over 270,000 US Citizens —more deaths than the US experienced in WW1, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined. Mr. James Taylor washed his face, ate a quick breakfast, and said goodbye to his wife as he began his daily walk to the train station. As he went down his street, his large suburban house began to vanish in the distance. Taylor began his commute from Columbia Heights to the Pentagon, during which he evolved from a ...