Remember Pearl Harbor

[Don G]

Agreed. The whole area of civics and history has been de-emphasized in our schools. How can a democracy maintain itself unless civic responsibility and history are carefully and completely taught, not just as some throwaway course to fill out some coach's paycheck, so that people have the basis to make informed political decisions! Now I like sports well enough, in its place, but our schools need to be a whole lot more rounded in coursework than just whatever the local team's win/lose record is. I love a good ballgame. But more important subjects need to be addressed as well.

I agree 100% with this statement. Academics don't seem to be as important as Sports..You have an Engineering student that invents a new method of bettering our country and he or she receives a plaque and $5000.00..Then a football player that can't spell cat gets a signing bonus and contract for $60,000,000.00..Something don't make sense to me..

[Cane Pole]

I agree 100% with this statement. Academics don't seem to be as important as Sports..You have an Engineering student that invents a new method of bettering our country and he or she receives a plaque and $5000.00..Then a football player that can't spell cat gets a signing bonus and contract for $60,000,000.00..Something don't make sense to me..

WE have become "The Roman Crowd of the Coliseum". We know what happened there.

[Billbob]

bring in the lions

[Lowellhturner]

Will NEVER forget watching CNN as the 1st US units deployed to the Gulf after Sad Butt Insane invaded Kuwait, seeing the young college students protesting against even stopping the blood thirsty admirer and student of Adolf Hitler and Joshep Stalin from overrunning Saudi Arabia. I could not help to feel a very REAL sense of this is just like 1938, and another arrogent dictator was again demanding he be appeased and allowed to control fully 1/3rd of the entire world`s petroleum supply. He admitted after his capture that only his troops stopping to loot and pillage Kuwait kept him from quickly grabbing the northern Saudi oil fields and as importantly 3 of the 5 major refineries and super tanker loading facilities. And the "PEACE at ANY cost" idiots all but cheering him on...I honestly had a nightmare of a jumbo jet taxiing up, the press gathering around, and Neville Chamberlan walking up to the cameras waving a piece of paper, solomnly proclaiming "I have his word..." We ALL know how that turned out. Like agreeing to allow a saltwater croc to eat you, but ONLY upto the knee...