[hazelle]

I have only been in this group about a week...and this thread reaffirms what a class act it is! Monday morning....after the horrific Sunday 7th my Dad jumped up and enlisted and he was a squadron commander in the Pacific flying spy bombers around Australia...but that was the kind of patriotism our parents had back then...so when USA started their "cutesy" ads for the showing of PEARL HARBOR this past weekend, my daughters got furious..."not only were they great fighters...but they were great lovers..how romantic Pearl Harbor was...before...." they emailed the USA network but the spots were never pulled....God, I hope we never get that immune to the horror of 9-11 that our grandkids hear that kind of ads when in about 20 years it runs more frequently!!

As for me, reading your insights makes me feel there are still some real people out there...had kinda felt the flame had gone down a bit...not much interest in Nov 22nd anymore...but for me, saw two pieces of the 47th floor from the World Trade Center at the Smithsonian in Sept...the tears just streamed down my face...and two kiosks over, was a draft of FDR's December 7th speech...some genius had edited it...changed one word...from "history" crossesd out in pencil and wrote INFAMY..the power of that one word!!