This is not just any Friday.
One glance at the calendar should tell you that.
But I wonder how many people today simply look at the calendar and see Dec. 7.
TGIF? No, it's a little more than that.
It's the day that will live in infamy. Seventy-seven years later, we mark the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacfic fleet in Hawaii.
One of the things that we've noticed as we again mark the attack on Pearl Harbor that launched a reluctant U.S. in to the second World War, is that we are slowly but surely losing those who survived that harrowing day.
Simply put, eventually old soldiers die.
As we saw this week with the death of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, day by day we lost the remaining few of 'The Greatest Generation.'
All they did was save the world.
We may lose their bodies.
But we should never lose sight of what they did, the sacrifices they made, and the heroic actions they took to stem the tide of hate and defeat Adolf Hitler's warped vision of the world.
We talk about it on today's editorial page.
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