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We Will Not Tire, Falter, or Fail

Monday, March 11, 2002

• TITLE: "We Will Not Tire, Falter, or Fail"
  
  This is a reference to one of the most moving lines in a most moving speech which President Bush delivered on September 20, 2001. The line was "We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail."

  Here is the White House transcript of that speech.

• "... Battle of Midway ..."
  
  A photo of the Yorktown listing and without power after being hit by two torpedoes on 4 June. Note the two F4F-4 "Wildcats" lashed to her flight deck aft of the island.
  
  Photo: National Archives & Records Administration

• "... El Alamein ..." British Commander, Bernard Montgomery, led the British two-front attack against the forces of German Commander Erwin Rommel . Rommel was forced to retreat from Egypt all the way across North Africa to Tunisia.
  
  
  
  

• "... invasion of Sicily ..." Codenamed "Operation Husky." This, from the history of the U.S. Coast Guard webpage:

  The idea for the invasion of Sicily was born at the January 1943, Casablanca meeting between President Franklin Roosevelt and English Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The overwhelming success of the North African Campaign allowed the Allies to consider pushing their plans forward to take the war onto the European continent.

  The initial decision they had to make was where to land. A landing across the English Channel in 1943 could not be accomplished due to a lack of resources. Instead they chose to land in Sicily in order to continue the pressure on the Germans, to secure lines of communication, and to divert German troops from the Russian front.

  
  
  
  
  
• "... VJ Day ..." Arguably one of the most famous photos coming out of the World War II era was this by Alfred Eisenstaedt taken for Life Magazine in Times Square as America celebrated the end of The War.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• "... Ethnic Japanese ..." This photo is a warning (Military Area No. 1; Zone "A"; Prohibited) marking a Japanese Internment camp.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
                       
                               World War II Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  And the people who knocked those buildings down have heard all of us.

  Photo: Win McNamee/Reuters ____________________________________________________________________________________