Pearl Harbor Remembered

[P5se Camelback]

... Each year there is less mention of them and I'm sad to say that most young people these days don't have a clue about WWII and all the sacrifices that were made - both on the front lines and at home.

What use to take up pages and pages in the history books of the past, now only merit a few paragraphs. Soon events like this will be described in a sentence or two as an "incident" that triggered the war in the Pacific. ...

Both of the above comments are unfortunately true ... and both comments sadden me tremendously!

Today's young people don't have a clue why we are the extraordinary nation that we are, and many don't think that this country is anything special! They haven't been taught what we were taught. They haven't lived through anything but peacetime ... they don't understand that Freedom is not Free! They think that that losing 4,000 soldiers is atrocious, that we should bring the troops home and just try to be friends with everybody. But they don't realize that, although tragic to the families of those who have fallen, losing 4,000 soldiers over four or five years is a drop in the bucket compared to the 30,000+ lost on D Day ... but they were never taught about D-Day or any of that. They don't know what a Fascist is, or a Nazi, or even a Communist! They know nothing of "the Cold War" ... they have never seen or been taught what those cultures were like.

And to me, that is not by accident, but is just one more step in the dumbing down process of "Progressives" to make "the People" complacent enough to acquiesce to their carefully fabricated status quo, in their quest towards a "One World" Government with "the Privileged Class" in power and they rest of "the Workers" relegated to Proletariat status.

Let us never forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that the rest of us could enjoy Freedom. May those of us who remember that Freedom is not Free and how terrible the alternative to Freedom is, do everything in our power to keep us a Free People!