With the retirement of our oldest employee last year, there isn’t a single person currently working for Lincoln County Publishing who was alive when Pearl Harbor was attacked Dec. 7, 1941.
There was a time when Pearl Harbor was the rallying cry for the country. For more recent generations, it seems December is best remembered now as the month John Lennon was assassinated.
While it is good to move beyond the original pain of the “Day of Infamy,” it is increasingly disturbing by the year to see the mists of history obscuring what was likely the unifying event of the American 20th Century.
It says here Americans should never forget the lives lost that day and thereafter: the sacrifices made at home and abroad for our great country.
We talk a lot on these pages, even in this very space, about thanking our veterans for their service and savoring the freedoms they served to protect and we mean it on Dec. 7 and every other day.
Every new day of freedom is another day for which to thank a veteran.
