On a day when many said America’s best days were behind her, Christian Mack challenged everybody to stand up and take The War to the Shang. He was not the only voice to say that. Not by any means. But when telling the history of The War, one should never forget that he stood up when nobody knew if America would ever stand up again. That took a great deal of courage in a time when many had none. It was courage like that which brought us through to War’s End.