Sometimes in the course of human events on the way in the pursuit of peace and happiness, war becomes an inevitable necessity. When madmen threaten our very freedoms, values and loved ones, good men are duty bound to stand to defend and protect. But there are lessons to be learned in the history of these battles, or we doom ourselves to repeat them in a series of "wars to end all wars." The question is ever on the lips of our nation's veterans..."When will they ever learn?"
The question is ever on the lips of our nation's veterans..."When will they ever learn?"When "they" stop asking for a "Peace Dividend". Then we will have learned that "Peace" is the dividend of being prepared for war.
In the 90's we capitulated to the false ideal that peace is a "natural" state of man. It is not, conflict is. When we forget this and other lessons of war, someone will always, unpleasantly, remind us.
God save the Republic and her soldiers.