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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:07 PM
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73. I think you are comparing apples to oranges on multiple levels
World War II was a far larger conflict and involved orders of magnitude more people than the current fighting in Iraq and A-stan.

There was no Internet, no cable, no live video, no helicopters; only AM radio. It's unlikely that any aircraft would have been dispatched to follow the balloon. By the time any large news organization got hold of the story, the boy would have been found. It would have been all over long before hitting the newspapers, which most people relied on for real news.
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