Lost Veneration

Americans now spend so much time doting on scientists, spoiling soldiers and kissing the pampered fannies of the layabout middle class that we've forgotten those people, invisible and largely unrewarded, who do the important work of society: People such as Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, who was, The Denver Post reported last week, "frequently and roughly disrespected all last year." We're better than this, America. If you see Tim Hardaway on the street-walking with Tim Hardaway's family—salute him, salaam him, show him some respect.