Submitted by Howard DeShazo, Jan 8, 2007 13:16

Listening to the news today frightenly bring back memories of 1938. Sitting with my grandfather in front of an old battery radio, a horn on top resembling a Susaphone, as he listend to H. V. Kaltenborn relating the latest news of Germany and the Third Reich.

I would later hear him discussing it with my grandmother, in somber tones, how the threat of world domintation from an evil force seemed to be growing and how the U.S.A seemed to be ignoring it. It bothered me to see my grandfather take it so seriously. At twelve many things pass, gently touch you, then lost in the play with friends and the game of the day.

It would touch me not gently, however, for at eighteen I joined the Navy and saw first hand what procastination, doubt and inaction toward an evil force had wraught. Some of my young friends and too many of the ones that went before us never came back due to the inaction and doubt of our leaders almost seventy years ago.

Howard DeShazo

H. V. Kaltenborn

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