Here we are on Memorial Day, 2012. The whole community is involved, in one way or another, with remembering men and women who served well, honorably, and sometimes fatally.
Except the local daily newspaper.
The Killeen Daily Herald decided once again to run a syndicated editorial that was probably never even glanced at by anyone on the staff. The same plain vanilla envelope was also picked up the the Reading (PA) Record-Searchlight and the Burlington County Times.
Was there nothing to say about Killeen's observation of Memorial Day? That seems hard to believe. Mention might have been made of Patrick Gray, the city's first sacrifice to WWII. Equally there is something to be said about each of the 1,000 names on graves at the Veteran's Cemetery, not to mention the hundreds of veterans buried elsewhere in this area. There is a Memorial Day story that would wrench your heart on every street in this city.
But apparently that's not enough motivation to get a KDH editor to write a couple of hundred original words.
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