I think to MIX honoring those who fought in WWII and who died at Pearl Harbor in 1941 WITH attacking Liberals today is not appropriate.
The win in WWII happened largely because the USA was truly UNITED as ONE Nation, dedicated to Victory over the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, Italy, and a few other nations who joined them. To attempt to celebrate and/or encourage DIVISION of the USA is counter-productive to maintaining USA's greatness. It also violates the spirit of those who fought in WWII.
Look at Bob Dole, who passed away as a WWII Veteran. I think he lamented this polarization in America and in American Politics. And this from the man who was labeled "The Hatchet Man" for his attacks on the opposition as President Ford's Vice President.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/17/bob-dole-congressional-gold-medal-342518From hatchet man to dealmaker: Bob Dole's path to the Congressional Gold Medal
Dole also could be a fierce partisan, with an eye for the jugular. As GOP chairman, he was a staunch defender of Richard Nixon in the early phases of Watergate, and as his party’s vice presidential nominee in 1976, he infamously denounced what he called “Democrat wars” in his debate with Walter Mondale.
But in his 35 years as a Congressman and Senator from Kansas, Dole earned an equal reputation for cross-party friendships and policy compromises with Democratic colleagues like George McGovern (on food stamps and school lunches) and Ted Kennedy (on voting rights and health care). Himself a gravely wounded veteran of World War II, he was instrumental in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and was floor manager for the bill establishing Martin Luther King’s birthday as a federal holiday. “Since when did a dollar sign take its place atop our moral code?” he asked Republican critics who complained that another holiday would be too costly.
“Dole was a compassionate conservative long before the term caught on,” said the historian Richard Norton Smith, a veteran Dole speechwriter and former director of the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. “As county attorney, he signed welfare payments for his grandparents, decent, hardworking people victimized by forces beyond their control. Dole never mistook poverty for a lack of character. Because he experienced dust storms and Depression-era hardship, and later World War II and the Cold War, he didn’t deny the existence of society, or confuse collective pursuits with collectivism.”
In fact, it was the collective generosity of his neighbors in Russell, Kansas, who deposited dollars and dimes in a cigar box in a local store window to pay for his medical treatment, that helped him recover from his wounds in the Allied campaign in Italy, which left him with a lifeless left hand despite repeated surgeries. He had been so despondent – and so worried that he might never even walk again -- that the only song that brought any comfort was Jane Froman’s recording of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel.”
As he grew older, and ultimately rose to the Republican leadership of the Senate, he once recalled, he shook off his image as a hatchet man and relished his reputation as a deal-maker. As late as the spring of 1994, with Bill and Hillary Clinton’s sweeping health care overhaul stalled on Capitol Hill, Dole passed a note to his Democratic colleague, Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, asking, “Is it time for the Moynihan-Dole bill?” Moynihan and Dole had joined forces to stabilize Social Security in 1983, and to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement ten years later.
How to reconcile Dole the partisan hatchet man with Dole the bipartisan statesman? How to reconcile the mixed elements in any man? When his former colleagues honor him on Wednesday, it’s worth remembering that when Dole left his beloved Senate in 1996 to try to right his floundering campaign, he rejected the advice of aides to use the occasion of his farewell speech to highlight wedge issues, and chose instead to remember the colleagues – many of them Democrats – with whom he had worked. And his credo was simple and short.
“We can lead or we can mislead, as the people's representatives,” Dole said then. “But whatever we do, we will be held responsible. We're going to be held responsible and accountable. I'm not talking about 1996; I'm talking about any time, or the next century.”