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HISTORY I have a strong feeling that the tapestry of our nation’s history is strongly interwoven with the individual threads of the memories and experiences of our citizen soldiers from the days of the Revolutionary War to the current conflict in Afghanistan. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” was written by George Santayana, in his Reason in Common Sense, The Life of Reason, Vol.1. I believe in that argument. I have a strong sense of history, it not only forces us to examine the past with the greater reasoning power of retrospection, but it propels us forward to do better. Military history is only one aspect of our nations struggle to attain the goals set forward in our Constitution. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” But our military history, as one facet of the American experience, reflects our social values. It is a mirror to the soul of the American people. Racial discrimination, treatment of drug abuse, many pieces of American history were first etched on that facet. So we must examine our military history to see which principles were deemed important enough for us as a nation to act on first and foremost, above all others. I was fortunate in some ways; my father was a veteran who served in the USMC during WW2 and the Korean War. My uncles have between them some forty odd years in service to country. Even though I grew up with that legacy, the stories were not handed down. It was not until long after the death of my father that I began to research the history of where he was and what he did. It was too late then. I hope in some small way to make up for that lack of information by cataloguing as much as I can, to the best of my ability what history I can save from the detritus. Perhaps in some distant future, my daughter’s grandchildren will be able to read about my experiences, and those I served with. Their exposure will give them a greater knowledge and understanding. They will understand the pride I take in having served my country in some distant land on a base long since closed to safeguard the liberties that I pray are handed down. “All gave some, some gave all” The liberty and justice guaranteed by our constitution was not won easily and the price paid to maintain it has not been apportioned fairly.
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