From the editorial: "We don't need to have been there like (Duluth's) Hilmer Hadselford was to push back against its fade into history. We can ensure instead that the significance of today's anniversary never becomes just another historical footnote."
WWII dive bomber Sid Zimman fought in the South Pacific as a gunner and took part in the attacks on Rabaul, a little-known Japanese strategic stronghold, and thwarted Japanese advances paving the way for the invasion of Iwo Jima and other islands
He was on board the battleship Oklahoma when the Japanese sunk it with torpedoes during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack that pushed the United States into World War II