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font size  Posted: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 12:00 am  had just
returned from an emotional afternoon at Pearl Harbor when I
heard the news - Osama bin Laden had been killed by Navy SEALs.
Only a few moments before I had stood looking into the murky
tomb that once was the USS Arizona and for 70 years has been the
resting place of more than a thousand brave men.  And now the
momentous news of the death of the world's greatest terrorist
brought back the prophetic warning attributed to Japanese Fleet
Admiral Yamamoto after he was told that the attack on the
American fleet had come before a declaration of war could be
delivered to Washington on Dec. 7, 1941.  Most American
schoolchildren know that quote about "waking a sleeping giant
and filling it with a terrible resolve."  Now an