Comments about ‘Utah students and veterans experience emotional roller coaster during visit to Pearl Harbor’

this is perhaps one of the most important contributions to our children's education that can occur, the direct and visceral descriptions, via verbal speeches of the actual participants who were there.

ancient peoples knew well the value of 'story telling' by word of mouth. it was far more effective in transmitting the human emotional element of experience, far better than the choosy black and white characters read from pages or portrayed by our futuristic media productions. real live people, explaining, with all the inclusiveness that only a person to person account can convey.

no country must allow only a few publishers to control what history is, or rewrite it to dilute the effective truths of life's tragic realities.

What a wonderful thing to do so these brave men could go back and honor those who died and remember what happened that day. It still surprises me how many soldiers died that day. Thank you to all the men and women who have served our Country. I am proud to be an American.
To those young people who raised the money and those who gave, thank you. These young people learned so much from this experience.

When Michelle Obama said the election of her husband was the first time she was "really proud of (her) country", I immediately thought of WWII and the fact these noble men and women saved the free world from evil.

Unlike our First Lady, I've always been proud to be an American.

My wife had two places she wanted to visit during her life...the Statue of Liberty and Hawaii...we made both. And, were blessed to spend December 7, 1981 at Pearl Harbor for the 40th anniversary...extremely emotional, and one of the most memorable days of my life. I have thanked her many times over for her want of going there. She has passed on, but her desire, still makes my heart overflow with gratitude for her, and for those who died during the entire WWII. To all, RIP............

There are few things as deeply moving as spending a day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, reading the names of those who perished to protect our way of life.

When you read those names, you cannot help but ponder the diversity of persons who "laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom" - among them, Americans of many religious faiths as well as many atheists; Americans of many nationalities and orientations, including gays.

At somber times like this, and during our remembrances on December 7th in a few days, it behooves us to ask ourselves if our lives are worth the sacrifices that were made to preserve them. Are we willing to honor and respect the freedoms, individual human rights, and the dignity of all Americans, without regard for their religious beliefs or lack thereof; without regard for their ethnicity, and without regard for their orientations?

If not, then those who fail in this regard are slapping Lady Columbia and all the grieving mothers she symbolizes, in the face, and disrespecting the sacrifices that were made.

A great article, describing the emotional highs and lows MOST feel when presented with the reality of the sacrifices men and women have made for the United States of America.

Unfortunately, usalover has used this forum to launch an attack on the wife of the President of the United States of America.

1st Amendment Rights are crucial for our country.

Have a wonderful evening being poisoned by FOX informercials.