Leonard Pitts: What would you give to save your world?

Elmo Cook knew nothing about it.He'd heard the sirens in the middle of the night alerting all of Abilene that something had happened, but when he tried to turn on the radio, he found that his power was out. And when he left for work in the morning, the paperboy had not yet made his rounds.As a result, Cook was one of the last people in town to hear about D-Day.The anecdote is from the Abilene Reporter-News for June 7, 1944, and it offers a visceral illustration of how the nation has changed in t