To say that 2020 has been an unusual year would be a vast understatement—and this certainly applies to the Southern Surgical Association (SSA). Canceling this year's annual meeting was an agonizing decision, but not a unique one for the SSA. The 1942 annual meeting is the only other to be cancelled since the first annual meeting of the SSA 132 years ago, most likely due to events surrounding World War II. Interestingly, there was very little discussion of the decision marking that event in the Transactions of the SSA of the next year. The 1942 meeting just seems to have just vanished from the books.