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Dogma just posted something kind of cool:

http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/20/terry-bradshaw-duck-dynasty-guy-taking-scripture-too-literally/?adid=sidebarwidget-tmzsports

From that I got inspired to start this thread up and encourage people to find similar tales in the news or biographies from when well known people stood at a crossroads and took a path that could have easily gone in another direction.


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This is a huge assed what if:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/when-ho-chi-minh-wrote-president-truman/1


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Here is the text from that telegram:

http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post/18436528466/dated-february-28th-1946-this-telegram-was-sent

I don't actually see the difference between what Phil or Terry are saying.

Phil also mentions love in his original GQ article.

jamesk1973 wrote:
I don't actually see the difference between what Phil or Terry are saying.

Phil also mentions love in his original GQ article.

I'm not focusing on what they say but the fact that while Phil was playing football, Terry sat on the bench. It was when Phil decided to quit football in favor of duck hunting that Terry got to play.

Seth McFarlane (Family Guy) narrowly missed his flight, American Airlines Flight 11, on 9/11/01.

 Ouze wrote:
Seth McFarlane (Family Guy) narrowly missed his flight, American Airlines Flight 11, on 9/11/01.

Lol, too bad.

So close...

There's actually a really cool book about military what if's, called "What If", edited by Robert Cowley. It's got some pretty cool things in it, for example what if the Persians won Salamis, if D-Day failed etc. It's pretty cool, though perhaps in some of its views a bit dated - it was published about 10 years ago.

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
There's actually a really cool book about military what if's, called "What If", edited by Robert Cowley. It's got some pretty cool things in it, for example what if the Persians won Salamis, if D-Day failed etc. It's pretty cool, though perhaps in some of its views a bit dated - it was published about 10 years ago.

Perhaps it is best it stays in the past.

An updated version would probably involve speculation of alien invasions or if terminator robots were involved.

What if no one read it?

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
There's actually a really cool book about military what if's, called "What If", edited by Robert Cowley. It's got some pretty cool things in it, for example what if the Persians won Salamis, if D-Day failed etc. It's pretty cool, though perhaps in some of its views a bit dated - it was published about 10 years ago.

Also the follow up book called "More What If". I have both on my bookshelf.

Operation Anvil (renamed Dragoon).

The invasion of Southern France following Normandy. Churchill argued that the invasion should have occured in the Balkans, and pushed to the Northeast to capture the oil fields from the Germans, and to put the Red Army in check, so the West would have better bargaining chips when the war ended.

Roosevelt (and Stalin) wanted to push into southern France. Stalins reasoning is kinda obvious. Roosevelt wanted to go into France because he figured it as a softer target. With it being an election year, he didn't want to throw American lives at an operation that would be a "harder" sell to the public.

Had Churchill won that fight, the possibility of the Cold War not happening could have come about.