Memorial Day

This Memorial Day as you enjoy your picnics and outdoor barbecues with families and friends, please make sure to take a moment to reflect upon the sacrifices that many of those in our armed forces made. … Have a good, safe holiday.

Sand Creek and Israel

I visited the Longmont Museum’s Front Range Rising exhibit before it’s torn down for remodel. One panel depicted the Sand Creek Massacre, where the troops under Chivington swept in and slaughtered Indian men, women and children as they slept. Praised at the time, we view that occurrence with condemnation today. Israel’s continuing … strikes in Gaza parallel the same trajectory and should face worldwide condomination.

‘Golden Age’

He cuts off Harvard funding then their foreign students. He threatens tariffs to Apple and says the iPhone should be made in America. He has a Bitcoin blowout at his hillbilly palace. And his GOP buddies who have very good, free medical insurance rejoice at cutting Medicare and Medicaid. Welcome to the Golden Age. Actually it’s gold only for him and the GOP.

Show respect

It seems to me that when Biden and all the other Democrats are in office, you people present them as “president.” Will you do the same thing and respect President Trump by saying “president” instead of “Trump”? My gosh, you people have gotten disrespectful, haven’t you? Show respect. I always do, and I have. I’m almost 100 years old, and I still show respect. Why don’t you, so that everyone in the paper will know that you respect President Donald Trump? Thank you, and God bless America.

President Trump

• When a person runs a country, elected or no, and conducts the affairs of state essentially for his or her own gain or aggrandizement or other reasons that are purely personal and not community-minded, then the “i” goes into the word run and you have r-u-i-n, ruin.

• Only President Trump could go to West Point for a graduation and a commencement speech and turn it into a campaign speech and a speech about nothing but himself. That’s all it was about. He hardly said anything to congratulate the graduates. … Can you say narcissistic?

George Will

I rarely agree with George Will’s opinions, but his column on Sunday was a gem.