Category: reader

Honoring All Our Heroes

With Memorial Day approaching, it’s a good time to honor our fallen heroes as well as our current day ones. Our heroes fought shoulder-to-shoulder with every color and every religion to abolish slavery in the Civil War. They fought Nazi Germany to save the Jews. Some Christians even hid Jews, putting their own lives in…


Armed Forces Day Tribute

The third Saturday of May is set aside to remember our military heroes. Armed Forces Day is in honor of all our men and women in the military, past, and present. I wrote the following to pay tribute to them. From the town square in Concord, Mass., when a patriot shouted out, freedom begins here,…


Looking Behind the Woke Curtain

My son is currently working hard to finish a 15-page paper that is a requirement for his high school language arts class. Imagine if at the end of the school year the teacher announced that in the coming years the 15-page assignment will be changed to only a 10-page essay because they are expecting five…


My Opinions

I read with interest the letters in The Readers’ Turn and I am impressed by the good intentions of the fair-minded people. There are articles covering almost everything in the government that requires our attention: People in the present administration like John Kerry consulting with enemies during the Trump administration, Hunter Biden in business with…


A Mom’s Research

In her well-researched opinion [“A Mom’s Research: Why Are Many Elites Leftists?” in the May 5–11 edition], Jean Chen spotlights much of the corruption extant in American politics circa 2021, and historically, what was directly responsible for the plight of what remains of the American Republic—from the radical Woodrow Wilson “Progressive” era that foisted the…