Last month, my father-in-law Frank Hoffmann, a World War II veteran, passed away at 92. He, like my own father who died in 1973, was a U.S. Navy veteran. Both men would have appreciated an address by Ronnie Abboud, a fellow World War II veteran who spoke at an early-morning session at the Clean Show in New Orleans about the National World War II museum and its focus on the fight to save the world from tyranny in the 1940s.

Abboud’s talk on June 22 addressed the people who took up the challenge to fight the Axis powers of Nazi ...