Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Honoring our past enhances our future

This was an outstanding article about an outstanding individual whom I, and many others, have been proud to call "friend" for a number of years.

That he and his selfless and unsung work have been recognized by your newspaper will, hopefully, serve to heighten the awareness of others of the need to recognize, preserve the memory of, and honor the many glorious people of our past, of all stations, whose valor, dedication to purpose, diligence of effort, and unselfish service have defined the present character of this nation.

No such individual should be permitted to lie, ignominious, beneath our sweet earth.

It has been said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. I think it equally true to say that those devoid of any knowledge of, or due reverence for, the past must, perforce, be doomed to exist in a present which has no contextual meaning and to visions of the future which lack of any sense of continuity of purpose.

Judge R. Allen McDaniel (Ret.)

Greenville, Ga.

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