In the town I called home for more than sixty years, among my earliest memories was joining my Father to attend the annual Memorial Day ceremonies. There was always a march to the appropriately named Memorial Park. It included veterans, scout troops, police and fire contingents, and the high school band.

My childhood years were marked by World War II, beginning when I was just four years of age and ending when I was eight, both fought far from our shores. My Father and I would listen to the reading of “In Flander’s Fields”, a poem by Lt. Col. John McCrae, MD, a member of the Canadian Army, commemorating those who fell in World War I combat.

The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst-case scenarios, including Scud missile-launched chemical weapons attacks on Israel’s metropolitan centers.

It’s not—thank God—the words of politicians like British Prime Minister David Cameron or London Mayor Boris Johnson that will be long remembered about the brutal murder of drummer Lee Rigby but the voluntary acts of three courageous women who tried to do what they could for “Riggers” at the horrific scene of his death.

As a former Scottish soldier now living in Canada, this horrific, cowardly murder of private Lee Rigby in his own country by two Islamo-fascist monsters breaks my heart.

Even with Obama administration-sanctioned IRS suppression—or with all odds stacked against them—the might of the Tea Party remains inspirationally epic.

The IRS already had its hobnailed big boot down on the tail of hundreds of Tea Party groups at mid-term elections on November 2, 2010, the IRS raid against the Tea Party having kick-started in March of the same year.

With the IRS boot at their throats, the Tea Parties stuck it to the high-riding Obama Democrats, virtually shellacking them in Nov. 2, 2010 mid-term elections.