Originally Posted by ShaolinLueb

time's were also very different 250 years ago. we were a new country. on the frontier settlers had to protect themselves from indians. the military was mostly a militia after the revolutionary war was over.

and as for your sig, if you look at hitlers accomplishments, taking germany which was the poorest country in europe after ww1. high inflation, high unemployment, the allies of ww1 didn't let germany have more then 100,000 troops i believe. somehow he trained a army from that. he turned germany around and into a world power, that conquered almost all of europe. pretty great as far as achievements went. but he also started ww2 and killed 6 million jews, so those do not matter what he acomplished.