That's why those of us who remember cry...

Bill Geist had a piece today on the CBS show Sunday Morning about a Hendersonville, North Carolina businessman who started a local campaign to send every WW2 vet in the county to see, before they died, the new World War Two memorial in Washington, DC.
Having an uncle and a stepfather who both served in that war, I was touched to see the aged veterans tottering through the memorial, honoring not only themselves, but their brothers who died before the memorial was completed, and the nearly half a million of their brothers who died before the war ended.

But it was Geist's summation that really brought tears to my eyes:
"...in appreciation, so long overdue, for the men, boys really, in their teens and twenties, who answered the call and saved the world."

When we wonder why our men, boys really, are fighting to save the world in Afghanistan and points east, remember these boys...