They fought and died to preserve an America of individual freedom and free enterpise, where you made it to the top through your own labors and efforts: An America where life was what YOU made it, not based upon what you could expect the government to do for you. They defended an America where everyone tried to be the best at whatever they did, where failure was accompanied by shame, and no one ever dreamed of accepting universal mediocrity. How sad that the current administration and Congress are dismantling and destroying that America right before our eyes. I miss my Uncle Bill, an aerial gunner in the Army Air Corps. Similar to Mister Morrison, he left in early '42 and the family didn't see him until early '46. I miss Uncle Walter, who served on a mine-sweeper in the South Pacific and decided that he liked the Navy enough to make it a career through Korea and Vietnam. I miss Uncle Ernie who floated around in an oil slick for three days after a U-boat sent his tanker to the bottom. Yet as much as I miss them, I'm glad that they aren't around to see what's happening to this nation now. There's nothing sadder than an old man crying over what he's lost....