[GoldwaterChick]

I was 9 1/2 when WW II started and my girlfriend and I went to the movies every Saturday. They were usually war films--my mother wouldn't allow me to see Back to Bataan--she was afraid it would be too graphic for a young girl to see. Hollywood practically cranked out one a week. I remember worrying about Japanese parachuting into the apple orchard down the street at night.

We always looked forward to seeing the News because then we could see live shots of the battles we heard about on the radio. Back then people who gave aid and comfort to the enemy were called traitors; today they are called politicians and newsmen. The Demoncrats must be proud of themselves for sounding just like Al Zawarheri (?)--they're calling for the same thing he is.

[DCPatriot]

I'm surprised. My earliest recollection on wars was the Korean War.

I can still "see" the news shorts in black and white sandwiched between the cartoons and the movie feature...that radio tower with the lightening bolts...or the old fashioned movie film camera counting down the seconds in grainy B&W.

[RunningWolf]

You must be about the same age as my Dad was, he was born in 1925 and could not serve active duty because he was deaf in one ear.

I did have other immediate relatives (on both sides of the family who did), and I heard their stories (those survived). In 1965, the end of WW2 was only twenty years gone.

I guess I just cant ever get into the fantasy that if the US never acts militarily, then nothing will happen to it. I guess a good example of that kind of thinking is the accusation that we 'made more terrorists' when we responded to 9-11.

Wolf