It is today. And yesterday, and tomorrow. A culture which forgets its history is dying, and an important part of every culture is its heroes.
To my mind, what needs to be remembered is not just that brave men and women fought and died for our country, but also that they fought and LIVED for this country.
More: we need to remember all of the heroes throughout history, who did what was right and good and just because it was right and good and just. We don’t have to sanctify any of them: we just need to remember them, and resurrect in our hearts as much as we can of the spirit that animated them.
Things don’t change all that much. People don’t change that much. There has always been good and evil. There have always been those who took what they wanted because they could; who hurt others because they wanted to. There have always been those who stood against them.
We are in a stage in our history when our cultural custodians are in large measure trying not just to destroy American or Western culture, but culture period.
We fight them through memory, through focussed remembrance of who we are, who we choose to be, who we want to be, and how much farther down the path of light we can and still must go.