[Scalia Rules]

Gimme a break. Posting Information that has appeared in the NY Times and on NBC NEWS is not unpatriotic. If I understand what you're saying, your construction of "Loose Lips Sinks Ships" would necessitate a complete governmental control of the media. Sorry, terrorists cannot have my freedoms.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO
THAT IS NOT YET PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE:

[MeekOneGOP]

Gimme a break. Posting Information that has appeared in the NY Times and on NBC NEWS is not unpatriotic.

TGYC's post is not personal. Just a reminder to all. . .

[LadyX]

Scalia Rules, the origin of the phrase ""Loose Lips Sinks Ships" is it was our watchword during WWII.
Every man, woman and child parroted it - and LIVED by it, nearly everyone with someone in the military or government whose life depended upon our cooperation.

I was 7 1/2 when Pearl Harbor happened, and acutely aware at that tender age of the meaning and reason for it. I went around with my little red wagon collecting scrap metal from empty lots in Coral Gables, Florida, and paper of any kind.
Added to that was every can used in the home, ends cut out and flattened - my job! - to be recycled.
We also purchased war stamps to place in war bond books each week at school to help fund the war.

Everyone had ration books for essential goods needed for the war effort - allowed only four pairs of shoes per person per year (tough for kids with growing feet) - sugar, butter, meat, gasoline, etc. rationed
We also watched for enemy planes and had blackout drills throughout the Miami area, carefully filling our bathtubs with water and closing the black curtains over the windows.
My father, from a high rise building in downtown Miami, saw a German sub surface in Biscayne Bay, as happened occasionally.

The unity and cooperation you see now is puny compared to the America of that time!
The belt has just begun to tighten - many of us know how, though, and have passed on understanding to our children.