(Continued from page 1)Comments on start of warbasking in the egalitarian democracy of the United States. Beauty' and ugliness, suffering and joy were strangely intertwined in our minds, but actual Combat was far from us. or so we thought.When the Japanese smothered the kindled fires of conscience and bombed Pear! Harbor everything changed for Americans. Homes were broken, lives were broken, and hearts were broken.We suddenly became a nation at war. Here’s the way some Muscatine area residents remember Dec. 7. 1941