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The most heartbreaking thing about having broken the enigma code during world war II, is that they had to let people die, knowing they could have saved them, because saving them would have tipped the enemy off that they had broken the code.

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I don't quite understand the relation of this comment to the GP's comment, but the world currently is not under world war 3. Any justification for things happening in ww2 is hard to use for current situation

There's no "world war" exactly, but the US is still overseas killing people and has been doing that every single year for decades. Basically my entire life. I doubt there's been very many years since WWII that the US hasn't been engaged in wars and armed conflicts somewhere on the Earth. We rarely hear about any of it, and if you asked a random person on the street they probably couldn't name any of the countries where people are/have been being killed.

to spell it out, the FBI can't tell the general public many of the stories where they did good, because that would exposure the methods they used to do good, which would result in them not being able to use those methods anymore, so those stories have to go untold.

also I disagree that we're not in world War III. we are, it just hasn't been officially declared yet.

It is heartbreaking, but they did not die in vain.

This may be the only time this quote has been used un-ironically, in good concious:

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." -Lord Farquad

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