Veterans' Day

This Past Saturday morning, Veterans’ Day was celebrated with a very traditional commemoration ceremony at the Veterans’ Memorial across from Evergreen Cemetery on North 18th Street.

There were the usual and appropriate remarks from veterans and other dignitaries, but what made the event so poignant was the presence of the family of a young, local man, very recently killed in action.

This family reminded everybody that those dying for us in Iraq and in other active duty around the world are our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, neighbors and friends and not some strangers that we’ve enlisted to do the business of freedom.

We owe our veterans everything. Let’s make sure we take care of them.