Americans Are Once Again Looking Outward

We Are The "can Do" Country. We Adjust To Situations Better Than Any People In The History Of The World... We Adjust To Change.

I Had Just Turned 10-years-old When The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor And Plunged America Into World War Ii.

But We Cannot Rely On Memorials And Museums Alone. We Can Tell Ourselves We Will Never Forget And We Likely Won't. But We Need To Make Sure That We Teach History To Those Who Never Had The Opportunity To Remember In The First Place.

There Was A Time In South Africa That People Would Put Flaming Tires Around Peoples' Necks If They Dis-sented. And In Some Ways The Fear Is That You Will Be Necklaced Here, You Will Have A Flaming Tire Of Lack Of Patriotism Put Around Your Neck. Now It Is That Fear That Keeps Journalists From Asking The Toughest Of The Tough Questions... And Again, I Am Humbled To Say, I Do Not Except Myself From This Criticism.

And Now The Sequence Of Events In No Particular Order.