| One of my hobbies is collecting and reading women's magazines from World War II. The amount of shared sacrifice that was requested, and that was given, was astounding. Rationing, food coupons, buying war bonds, and then more war bonds, shortages of every type of goods -- from cars to towels -- sending one's sons and husbands off so we could live in freedom and beat the bad guys -- that was one hell of a war that we really, truly believed in and sacrificed for. No, I don't want all those sacrifices -- but that's because I don't believe in this war. |