-Jupiter, FL Not one of the old "frogmen" or the young seal who gathered this week at the nearby National Museum of the Navy UDT-SEAL to exert their annual wants to see another war. Those who come here are veterans of the battle from World War II for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan now to a lot of fights are known throughout the world. In the rankings they are men-and their families-who knows what it means to go in harm's way, often without recognition or public recognition.
Widow of slain SEALS put it this way, "before my husband was deployed to Afghanistan was the last time, he said, ' it is important we know what I'm doing as a seal. What is important is that he knows why I do it: so he wouldn't have to. ' " Unfortunately, despite the courage and sacrifice of his parents, young people they may well face a future that is very dangerous.
It is a fact of human nature that perception changed weakness invites aggression. For us, ever since the founding of the Republic. We stripped after the American Revolution. That is how we ended up with the war of 1812.adsonar_placementId=1502157;adsonar_pid=150758;adsonar_ps=-1;adsonar_zw=198;adsonar_zh=170;adsonar_jv='ads.adsonar.com';
Just a year before the one million u.s. troops sent to rescue France during World War I, Woodrow Wilson promised our countrymen that there is no risk of cutting off our defense, because we will not engage in "wars of Europe." When the war ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day 11th month of 1918, we immediately cut its defense spending–and our President told us could rely on "collective security" of the League of Nations.
In 1939, with the Empire of Japan running amok in Asia and Adolf Hitler's legions of travel throughout Europe, the US military is the 17th largest in the world. In Washington, Republicans and Democrats–at odds over President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal economic programs–could hardly agree on allowing conscription. In 1941, extension draft passed by just one vote in the House of representatives. At the end of the war, serving more than 16 million Americans.