Well, I think you got your answer in post #7. But, I don't think we are patting ourselves on the back. We are in effect saying thank you. From Steve Welder's comment: Yep, all of the above and the Fifties and Sixties were a great time to grow up, but those great decades were a gift to us from the Greatest generation. They made the scarifies and had the courage and fortitude, the loyalty to the country first with a unselfish, honest, modest common sense approach