Today's Opinions

Take a good look at the Graduation 2013 special section. It’s full of the graduates from all four county high schools.
Today, about 787 Lancaster County students will march across four graduation stages to receive their high school diplomas.
Later, they’ll flip the tassels on their mortarboards as they celebrate their graduation with the friends, family, teachers and administrators who helped them along the way.  

I know I should probably write about the current multiple scandals in Washington. And with the investigations into the Benghazi terrorist attacks, the revelation of the Department of Justice pulling the Associated Press’ phone records and the outrageous political vendetta being revealed at the IRS, there would certainly be no shortage of material.
That said, I recently read a commentary on those scandals – and the way they are being pursued – that actually bothers me as much as the misdeeds themselves.

Occasionally The Lancaster News receives an email from Gov. Nikki Haley’s office announcing that flags across the state will be flown at half-staff on a certain day.
Often the reason is because a South Carolina soldier has been killed in action, usually in Iraq or Afghanistan. We post those announcements on our website.
Those half-staff flags are reminders of why we observe Memorial Day. It is so easy to get caught up in the celebration of the holiday with picnics, cookouts and get-togethers that we forget just why there is a Memorial Day.