Remembrance

Let us remember, as we mark this fifth anniversary of IX.XI, that on the fifth anniversary of XII.VII (or 7 December 1946) we had fought two implacable enemies for nearly four years on three continents, lost nearly a half million dead soldiers, sailors, and marines, liberated over a dozen countries, shut down the end-game of the Holocaust, dropped two atomic bombs, and killed or wounded millions of our enemies, civilian and combatant alike.
That is what war is.
Remember, too, that we were about to embark on the Marshall Plan, spending billions of dollars to rebuild Germany and Japan, all without a drop of oil being involved.
That is what Americans do.

The Thousand Year War has been running at low intensity since 1783. Since 9/11, things have heated up. But, as Colonel Slade said, we're "just getting warmed up"...