[Ezekiel]

until their GuadalcanalPearl Harbor sounds distant on the ear like Shiloh and Valley Forge."

It's going to be more than okay, not so distant at all:

When Shiloh comes is the time of the gathering of the People (Gen 49.10).

The Hebrew word for gathering is uncommon. It is alternately translated as "obedience."

As a military man, you could surely see the natural relationship between gathering and obedience. Such as:

to muster, fall in. To be called to attention.

Other examples -- all hands on deck, quarters, general quarters. Alarms in the case of fire, or man overboard...

For the USS Arizona today, here we are. All hands on deck = Get-r-done.

[rlmorel]

“Get-r-done” indeed!