our true strength
Here in my city there is a campaign to erect a WWII memorial to place along with the Korean and Vietnam memorials, before the few living vets expire.
These memorials are only of significance as long as one generation passes on their reverence to the next one.
Now for the dirt in you face part.
Most of the posters here on THR state: my grandfather, uncle, etc. I'm in that generation too; it was my father who was a vet, and grandfather was a WWI vet. "We" appreciate their sacrifice, and try to impress our children with who they were.
How ever, the current generation; full steam ahead, has been "cut off from us through the US Public educational system, and cares less about these things.
Don't believe it? Who was it that voted against a POW veteran, and for a man who is about to weaken the military forces of our nation drastically?
Who is the generation who wants change? Out with the old and on with the new? No more USA, but global this and that.
Old, wise and true words: "There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come, with those that shall come after."
We have been subverted. And forsaken the established principals which have endowed each sucessive generation with what it means to be American.
We have permitted our representative government to not represent us and to represent themselves.
It will be by only "Trusting in God" again that we will restore this nation and survive.
Before the junk tanks are trashed altogether, those excellent torpedoes they used at Pearl were better than anything we had, and the enemy aircraft there were good too.
How about the Ariska rifles their army used? Lots of THR info about them.
I suppose they did not see the utility of tank warfare in Asia, perhaps, but not all of their weaponry was unreliable.
But then, we do not need to be concerned over such things if we will just join the global village persuasion and give peace a chance.