Opinion

Silence on Pearl Harbor was insult to veterans

Posted December 15, 2014 4:01 am

I just finished perusing the Dec. 7 Herald, looking for coverage of Pearl Harbor, but to no avail. Apparently the Herald staff has chosen to do what President Franklin Roosevelt said would never be done, to fail to remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, the "Day of Infamy" that brought America into the Second World War. Failure to not only commemorate Dec. 7, but to totally ignore it without a single printed word on its anniversary, is a grave insult to those servicemen and women who served and sacrificed so we all could live in a safer world.

You owe a deep apology to all the men and women who have ever served their country in uniform as well as countless civilians staffing the immense war effort that followed the attack.

William J. Cole Arlington Heights

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