On this day 68 years ago our country was attacked while our troops slept, went to church, and fished on that Sunday morning. December 7, 1941 will indeed be, as President Roosevelt said, "a date which will live in infamy." It led us to enter into World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters. By 1945 millions of Allied troops had liberated Europe, and deposed of the Nazi and Japanese regimes.

My 84 year old father has told me stories about his service in the Army during World War II, and I can say without a doubt that the greatest generation of Americans saw horrors and made sacrifices many of us cannot fathom. We owe every freedom we have today to those men and women who made sure Hitler and the Japanese were stopped before continuing their conquest for world domination. The debt of gratitude we owe the veterans of World War II, such as my father, cannot be measured, so the least we can do is take a day to remember all they sacrificed for us.

On September 11, 2001 this generation witnessed its own Pearl Harbor. Let us make sure we continue to fight for the freedoms the veterans of World War II made sure we could live out on a daily basis to this very day.