1) Great post at Respectfully Republican.

2) Patrick over there asks that we join him and "others in a observing a moment of silence in his honor this Friday."  Will do.

There are curious parallels between Pearl Harbor and 9/11, but the biggest one is the one that got away. 

In the speech below, President Roosevelt illustrates our anger and resolve, much as President Bush similarly illustrated our anger and resolve post 9/11.

What got away is that we kept our resolve in WW2, but in the modern era we have lost our resolve to political correctness, liberalism, and special interest.

In WW2 our nation resolved to win and did whatever it took to succeed.

Now, it seems like we not only have no resolve to win, we actually can't wait to fail.

Go to Hawaii.  Go to Pearl Harbor.  Go to the USS Arizona Memorial.