American Is The First Democratic Nation-state.

When Hitler Declared War On The United States, He Was Betting That German Soldiers, Raised Up In The Hitler Youth, Would Always Out Fight American Soldiers, Brought Up In The Boy Scouts. He Lost That Bet. The Boy Scouts Had Been Taught How To Figure Their Way Out Of Their Own Problems.

In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries You Have These Great Nation States Hurling Their Young Men At One Another. The Victory Was Really Going To Rest On Who Could Do The Best Job Of Bringing Up Their Kids To Become Efficient And Effective Soldiers. That's Pretty Grandiose, I Guess, But I Do Think That, And Thank God It's Been The Armies Of Democracy That Have Emerged From This As The Triumphant Armies.

I Was Taught By Professors Who Had Done Their Schooling In The 1930s. Most Of Them Were Scornful Of, Even Hated, Big Business.

At The Core, The American Citizen Soldiers Knew The Difference Between Right And Wrong, And They Didn't Want To Live In A World In Which Wrong Prevailed. So They Fought, And Won, And We All Of Us, Living And Yet To Be Born, Must Be Forever Profoundly Grateful.

It Is Through History That We Learn Who We Are And How We Got That Way, Why And How We Changed, Why The Good Sometimes Prevailed And Sometimes Did Not.