This young man was born in Nebraska to an ordinary, middle class family. It still stuns me that out of that we get people who go on to end up with the Congressional Medal of Honor. First they hung in through the Depression, then through the war, doing things like this. No riots, no mass complaining -- when it was time to go, they just did it.
Snippy mentioned that it was great to see that some of the WWII people at the memorial. Obviously, I agree, but...they are leaving us now. It was their votes and their beliefs that made the country what it is. Now, more than ever, it will be the country of their children...and that's a little more ominous. All I can say is that when I think of that, I thank God the Vietnam vets are mostly still with us, because they know the price. And the kids who are fighting now...well, they do too. But they are far fewer in number.
Thanks for the comments again. BTW, the other day my father sent me some letters from another cousin who was a B-29 bombardier on Saipan, just a Nebraska farmkid, who I had never heard say much about the war. He wrote that after the Enola Gay A-bombing of Hiroshima, the Army Air Force people on Saipan were afraid that the Japanese would retaliate with poison gas bombing. Don't hear that much in all the discussions, do we? They knew it was a credible threat. The fact that it did not happen told them that the A-bombs had been effective in destroying the Japanese will to fight.
Morning regulator.
It worries me some that fewer and fewer politicians have every served in any capacity.