Jackie Leon’s Reviews > All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor > Status Update

The great lesson we too often learn from history, however, is that we are so prone to forget the past. And there is a price we pay for our forgetfulness.

If you were there on that path, looking out to the sunken remains of what was once the pride of the Pacific Fleet, it would be hard not to pray, not to realize how complacently we live our day to day lives, hard not to ask God for forgiveness for our forgetfulness. We have forgotten so much, not just individually but as a nation.

Somehow out there
A man died for me today.
As long as there be war,
I must answer
Am I worth dying for?