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But according to federal law employers cannot “discharge, constructively discharge, suspend, lock out, lay off, fail to recall from layoff” or otherwise take adverse action against employees because they support a union or take part in union activities.

“So much time has passed from the fall of the Iron Curtain that many have internalized -- or never experienced -- Socialism’s ultimate price. If we fail to recall those dangerous times, the primitive appeal of socialism will advance and infect our institutions,” Stewart warned.

And challenges for those workers ramp up this time of year when, over a two-week period that starts before Christmas and ends just after New Year’s Day, an estimated 41 million harried travelers shed belts and shoes, grudgingly remove both laptops and liquids from their luggage — and also, not infrequently, fail to recall that they have tucked a loaded pistol, say, or a pet tarantula or some throwing stars in their carry-ons.

I fail to recall the names of some men I once professed to love, but try as I might, I do not forget those lines.

We fail to recall, for example, that the 1945 Dower report envisaged wilder national parks than we now possess, and that the conservation white paper the government issued in 1947 called for the kind of large-scale protection that is considered edgy and innovative today.