Senior Airman Casey Leavings of Yokota Air Base, Japan, urges in a letter: "We should remember our past." His point: "With that in mind, I wonder why, in the online articles for Stripes' Dec. 7 issue, there was no mention of the attack on Pearl Harbor."

Leavings notes that he had not seen the printed version of the paper. Indeed, an Associated Press article about Pearl Harbor did appear in print on Dec. 7. It said that after 66 years a memorial to the sunken USS Oklahoma would be raised in Hawaii.Unfortunately, the article appeared only in the Mideast edition, not those of Europe or the Pacific.

I'll digress here to make one practical point, which readers should keep in mind: The online version of Stripes does not as a rule include the Associated Press articles that appear in the printed edition, except to the extent they are in the AP's direct offerings at the bottom of the home page. Almost always, the rest of the page and the subordinate ones include only staff-written articles. The exceptions are when very important breaking news occurs, in which case the online editors will immediately post the AP coverage at the top of the page, above the paper's own stories. An example was the assassination of Mrs. Bhutto in Pakistan this week.

So, even if the USS Oklahoma story had appeared in all three print editions, Leavings would not have read it online. (It most likely would not have appeared in the AP section of the Web site either.)

Just an informational note about Stripes editing practices.