Don’t forget how few of us serve

Herman Wouk wrote, “The beginning of the end of war lies in remembrance.” In an era when fewer than 2 percent of our population have an immediate family connection to someone who has been deployed in an active combat zone in the last decade, these words have never been more relevant.

There is no more apt time than Memorial Day for personal consideration of what this statement means to us as a country; please do.

Steve Giesen
Everett