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I appreciate your kind words, but I am just a keyboard jockey. Men like my father and those who serve now and are ready to bleed in places like Iraq deserve more of the accolades as they allow us to rant here. My objective is to make sure that their memory is notstained by having us abandon the priciples for which they sacrficed and are sacrificing still. If we lose this battle, the nation which they fought for will have dissapeared, conquered without benefit of having fired a shot.

I posted the following on another thread last week. I hope the story serves as inspiration for others.:

What I do is nothing, sitting on a keyboard is easy. I will relate a story so that you have an understanding. One of my heores, besides my father, was Vladimir Bukovsky.

He spent most of his formative years from the age of 17 over 12 years in the Soviet Gulag. In 1976 he was exiled in exchange for some Chilean dissident.

In any case, sometime in 1976 I was watching him being interviewed by Barbara Walters in a Hotel in Paris after his exile. She asked him why every time he was release he would the next day go back to the street and demonstrate against the Kremlin knowing he would be thrown back in prison. His answer has stayed with me all these years. He looked he straight in the eyes and simply told her. "If not I then who?" I doubdt to this day that hse understood what he was saying. But that is the question we all must ask ourselves. It was at that moment that I understood also why my father risked his life opposing communists in Europe and then in South America and why we came here.

That is what we must all ask ourselves.