Happy holidays

As Christmas draws to a close, it's a reminder to thank every journalist who couldn't be with his or her family today because he or she was on alert in Baghdad or monitoring a police scanner in Boise, or trying to put out a coherent Web site, newscast or newspaper in Birmingham, Binghamton or Bangor.

And a thanks as well to those soldiers, police officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, utility workers, shelter volunteers and others with whom those journalists work and who help us all enjoy the holiday with their tireless service.

Sometimes we forget, but we're all in this together.

God bless, whoever or whatever your god may be.