Comments on: Pearl Harbor http://mt2d2.net/blog/2007/06/22/pearl-harbor/ Don't call me Chuck. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4-20841 By: Chris http://mt2d2.net/blog/2007/06/22/pearl-harbor/comment-page-1/#comment-4524 Chris Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:12:13 +0000 http://mt2d2.net/blog/2007/06/22/pearl-harbor/#comment-4524 What do you say? I myself served in the Navy and I find myself drawn there. Never really the history buff I find I can't read or learn enough about it. I wouldn't say I am obsessed with it but I have more than the average interest. I stood on Ford Island recently and looked up a the tower with the .50 caliber holes in it, and I felt cheated. I was born 50 years too late. There's no greater love than to give your life for another, but there's no greater honor than to give your life for your country. It's a sharp contrast to current events. An unpopular war, in a land where they hate us. 1177 of our finest died, some of them sleeping, some of them preparing for morning Colors... they didn't expect it. All of them heros, don't get me wrong, but we have just as many today that know that they are in harms way. God Bless them. Read "Gift of Valor" sometime... it details the horrors of war but more importantly it details the nobility of our volunteers, who are professional and though they may not agree with why they are there, but they do for you to be free enough to disagree as well. You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm. ~ George Orwell What do you say? I myself served in the Navy and I find myself drawn there. Never really the history buff I find I can’t read or learn enough about it. I wouldn’t say I am obsessed with it but I have more than the average interest. I stood on Ford Island recently and looked up a the tower with the .50 caliber holes in it, and I felt cheated. I was born 50 years too late. There’s no greater love than to give your life for another, but there’s no greater honor than to give your life for your country.

It’s a sharp contrast to current events. An unpopular war, in a land where they hate us. 1177 of our finest died, some of them sleeping, some of them preparing for morning Colors… they didn’t expect it. All of them heros, don’t get me wrong, but we have just as many today that know that they are in harms way. God Bless them.

Read “Gift of Valor” sometime… it details the horrors of war but more importantly it details the nobility of our volunteers, who are professional and though they may not agree with why they are there, but they do for you to be free enough to disagree as well.

You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm.
~ George Orwell

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