How the so-called Greatest Generation celebrated the end of World War II in San Francisco.
"Thousands of frenzied, drunken revelers, an estimated 90 percent of them young Navy enlistees who had not served overseas, embarked on a three-night orgy of vandalism, looting, assault, robbery, rape and murder. By the time the “Peace Riots” burned themselves out on Friday morning, 13 people were dead, at least six women had been raped, 1,059 people were injured, and an incalculable am...ount of damage had been done to businesses, public buildings, streetcars, cars, traffic lights, signs, barber poles, marquees and everything else the rioters had gotten their hands on. They were the deadliest riots in the city’s history.
"Thousands of frenzied, drunken revelers, an estimated 90 percent of them young Navy enlistees who had not served overseas, embarked on a three-night orgy of vandalism, looting, assault, robbery, rape and murder. By the time the “Peace Riots” burned themselves out on Friday morning, 13 people were dead, at least six women had been raped, 1,059 people were injured, and an incalculable am...ount of damage had been done to businesses, public buildings, streetcars, cars, traffic lights, signs, barber poles, marquees and everything else the rioters had gotten their hands on. They were the deadliest riots in the city’s history.
"Almost as appalling as the disturbances themselves was the official response to them. Although everyone involved — the mayor, police chief, top Navy brass, the state body responsible for controlling sales of alcohol, the city’s liquor stores and bars and, of course, the sailors and civilian rioters themselves — was culpable, no one paid a price for their misconduct. No sailor or civilian was ever charged with murder, rape, looting, assault or any serious crime. Although six women were treated for rape at Central Emergency Hospital, police never filed a report of a single rape case. No officials, civilian or military, were ever punished or even reprimanded. A grand jury investigation was a farce. The city simply tried to pretend the riots never happened."
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