Today, being Pearl Harbor Day, it gave me pause to think of the correllation between our lives today and the events of over half a century ago. How do you sum up the lives lost so many years ago? How do you put into words the devastating loss of life, loved ones and happiness that so many people experienced some fifty-three years ago?

It wasn't that long ago, but are we forgetting the patriotism that burned so deeply then? The death of more than five thousand people spurned the effort to keep America and it's allies free. All these years later, we are belittling a war which is just as important.

Why are we not supporting the troops? What makes that war any more significant than this one? In hindsight, it is easy to say President Roosevelt did the right thing. Do you think people agreed with him then? The casulaties were far greater, but people believed in the fight for freedom, happiness and the American way. Can we not see that the very same ideals were being threatened, which is why we are at a state of war? Have people considered, that some fifty years down the road, when the loss has lessened ever so slightly and history has looked down favorabley, President Bush will very likely be heralded as a hero who freed many oppressed people.


And where will the nay-sayers be then.