REMEMBER - AT 7:45 A.M. ET:  Today is September 2nd, the anniversary of the formal end of World War II.  The Japanese signed the instrument of surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on this day in 1945. 

In remembering September 2nd we should remember the enormity of the sacrifices this country made in past wars.  I mention that because of my contempt for poorly educated journalists who glibly talk about how America is "war weary" today...and yes, every casualty is precious, especially for the family involved.  But consider:  In the last year of World War II...

the United States lost more than 19,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge,

the United States lost almost 7,000 men at Iwo Jima,

the United States lost more than 12,000 men at Okinawa.

Please remember that the next time some fashionably leftist journalist agonizes over our situation today, or sneers at the use of the atomic bomb, which ended the horrors of World War II.

Tonight, at the Angel's Corner, we'll be publishing a fine recollection by reader Claude Williams of his trip through the wartime battle sites of Europe, and how it affected him.  Well worth reading.

September 2, 2009