Originally Posted by
M60A3Driver
Thank you GraphiteGhost.
You're correct, many people don't realize what the country did to defend itself back then. Many families lived on that base and many of the surrounding population didn't even know it existed!
History needs to be kept alive.
……the middle of the last century saw the end of Innocence, where the Belief that Hard Work and Perseverance, the Rule of Law and Morality, Duty Honor and Country was enough and American Exceptionalism would insure success.
Sophistication - (a more Worldly View) pushed all these silly ideas into an ash heap.
it is what it is.
what does America now mean ?