HOLIDAYS, OH HOLIDAYS!

Holidays, oh holidays, times to praise, to raise the flag, to salute and root for all that's great in these, our beloved United States, to fill our hearts with hip- hoorays and relive the memories millions wish they could forget, the deaths of those who sacrificed and paid the price with their life and we ere left to remember times like that fatal September, that December Day of Infamy, dates like 1776 and oh so many more, when war was waged and madness raged and blood was shed and the good left dead to test our great democracy.

Was it always thus. will it always be, is death the only way for us to protect our land from foreign bands of terrorists who persist in spreading heartless hate while the good debate ways to defend humanity from this senseless insanity.

Will we, one day, find a way to end all wars waged by masses caught in the grips of dictatorships controlled by tyranny? No longer will the strong oppose the weak nor will the weak seek support of freedom loving nations to rid the devastation destroying all civilizations. Then and only then will holidays evoke only memories of true love and brotherhood and all that's good, prevailed on earth as it should.

And it could!