And so the election continues….the stock market continues to drop faster than Madonna’s undergarments, and the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping adds to the stresses of our daily lives. Still today and this week marks one of the most horrific events in American history. December 7, 1941 marks the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor during WWII that killed over a thousand of our countrymen.
Let us take the time this week to remember those lives lost to this tragedy and the other victims of WWII. I’m reminded in writing this when I saw the movie Saving Private Ryan, a movie focused around the Normandy invasion. I went during the day, during a day off so I wouldn’t have to be inflicted by a packed theatre to see such a blockbuster movie. The theatre was practically empty with the exception of a small group of elderly people. It was a group of WWII veterans with their wives that had gathered together to see this movie. The movie was incredible as most of you well remember. Seeing it on the big screen with an incredible sound system truly reached down and pulled terror from inside as the screen shook and soldiers were brutally killed throughout the movie. As the credits rolled at the end I found myself exhausted and drained emotionally and practically physically from the tension of the movie. I stood up and made my way from the front of the theatre to behind the small crowd of veterans to exit the theatre. I overheard one of the veterans saying to another, “I hope this makes young people appreciate those that died for our country.” I thought immediately to myself that it certainly did make me appreciate them, but more so those that had lived through it.
To all of our veterans I offer my thanks. Thank you for putting your life in serious and real danger so that my future generations and I can enjoy the freedoms of the most phenomenal country in the universe. Thank you for bearing the weight of the sight of torturous deaths and accompanied emotions you endured upon your shoulders for all of us that did not. What you have sacrificed of yourselves is and was not in vain for you have given that of yourselves onto all of us. You are forged of true honor and we thank you!!
Thanks dad!
Michael D. Donahoe
Let us take the time this week to remember those lives lost to this tragedy and the other victims of WWII. I’m reminded in writing this when I saw the movie Saving Private Ryan, a movie focused around the Normandy invasion. I went during the day, during a day off so I wouldn’t have to be inflicted by a packed theatre to see such a blockbuster movie. The theatre was practically empty with the exception of a small group of elderly people. It was a group of WWII veterans with their wives that had gathered together to see this movie. The movie was incredible as most of you well remember. Seeing it on the big screen with an incredible sound system truly reached down and pulled terror from inside as the screen shook and soldiers were brutally killed throughout the movie. As the credits rolled at the end I found myself exhausted and drained emotionally and practically physically from the tension of the movie. I stood up and made my way from the front of the theatre to behind the small crowd of veterans to exit the theatre. I overheard one of the veterans saying to another, “I hope this makes young people appreciate those that died for our country.” I thought immediately to myself that it certainly did make me appreciate them, but more so those that had lived through it.
To all of our veterans I offer my thanks. Thank you for putting your life in serious and real danger so that my future generations and I can enjoy the freedoms of the most phenomenal country in the universe. Thank you for bearing the weight of the sight of torturous deaths and accompanied emotions you endured upon your shoulders for all of us that did not. What you have sacrificed of yourselves is and was not in vain for you have given that of yourselves onto all of us. You are forged of true honor and we thank you!!
Thanks dad!
Michael D. Donahoe
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