Ninety-two percent of the population considers the current military action right and proper. Sixty-two percent of our students feel the same, according to a report on WRSC. Elizabeth Peters thinks that knowing the height of the Washington monument was the focus of Marianne Lorensen's column on knowing history.

Craig Munster can't condone the defense of our country unless we do it without harming anything. That makes me sad and angry. I think of Hanoi Jane. "Who's that?" they say, naively. To you 48 percenters, I say this: If you don't know history, how dare you tell us what to do?

If you are such a coward that you can't defend yourself when attacked, then by all means, join the Baldwins in Costa Rica or Nicaragua, or wherever it was they said they were going, when Bush got elected. I take trips to learn about our history — Antietam and Gettysburg this summer.

Stand on those hallowed grounds, preach your agitation propaganda to the dead. It's as close as you'll ever come to knowing heroism. Of course, you don't know what agitation propaganda is, either, so what's the point? If you don't know where your own philosophy comes from (Marxism/Leninism), why should we listen to you? Learn about your own politics and its origins. See how they conflict with America. Spare me the "free speech" crap. You have no idea what it means or where it came from.