DAYS REMEMBERED

There should be a national holiday that commemorates all the dark days of our National history. Days like Pearl Harbor and 9/11 should be carved out of our National calendar for all Americans to take notice and reflect upon. This day should not be a day off from work or a day to pitch sales and events.

The day should have a solemnity to it that invokes prayer or reflection in all faiths, perhaps a universal service that is non-denominational and allows all faiths the same access to commemorate those events and those that were sacrificed. The 2,000 sailors at Pearl Harbor and the two thousand civilians that perished in the World Trade Center in New York, the fields of Pennsylvania and the personnel at the Pentagon.

Maybe the day the South fired on Fort Sumter should be included among those dark days, a day that tore our nation apart and maybe even includes the death march of the combatants at Corregidor in the Philippines.

Why should this be so? To show the world and ourselves that no matter what happens on the World stage and who the aggressors are, that we continue to forge head our shoulders strong as is our resolve.