To the editor: I grew up in Coronado as a army brat. My male ancestors fought in each American battle for freedom and justice, from the Revolutionary Warfare to the Korean Warfare. My father and grandfather each served as Naval officers throughout World Warfare II and emulated a steadfast allegiance to their nation and its establishments. (“John Kelly says Trump is a ‘fascist’ who while in office repeatedly praised Hitler,” Oct. 23)
I got here of age questioning the Vietnam Warfare. My father’s respect by no means wavered for the choices made by two presidents. His upbringing and army coaching taught him to depend on the nice intent and integrity of his commander in chief.
From the start of his time period in workplace, former President Trump handled “his” army officers with disdain, and infrequently demeans them in public. Bullies have a tendency to focus on people who find themselves a greater model of themselves. The best-level army leaders have constantly responded with restraint and dignity, in deference to the commander in chief.
A titanic change has occurred lately — high-ranking army officers are publicly talking out concerning Trump’s fascist phrases and demeanor. When profession army leaders can now not stay silent, it’s as a result of they’ve chosen to place their allegiance to the USA and Structure above a hazard to our nation.
We should take heed to what they’re telling us.
Mary Rider, Idyllwild, Calif.
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To the editor: I forged my first vote for president (Dwight D. Eisenhower) in 1956, so you already know it was with creaky joints that I walked a distance to drop my poll into the safe field at my county’s headquarters for the approaching presidential election.
What a distinction between a person who as supreme Allied commander led the trouble to free Europe from the dictatorship of Adolph Hitler. Eisenhower little question felt sorrow as he reviewed his younger troops earlier than the assault on Normandy. He was a worthy president when he received that top workplace.
Distinction that with Donald Trump and the unworthiness he demonstrated as president.
I proudly swore an oath to democracy after I grew to become a instructor. Now I worry that such a “loyalty oath,” ought to Trump be elected once more, can be to a fledgling dictatorship.
I can not fathom how so a lot of my fellow residents have turned a blind eye to what ought to be their first precedence on this election: fealty to our democratic beliefs.
Joanne Oroark, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: For a number of years we’ve seen a lot head-shaking over Trump’s abiding maintain on his voters, however I feel we’ve missed the essence. His attraction will not be fascism, it’s respect.
For many years liberalism has moved from championing open-mindedness to telling others to close up and do as advised as a result of the elite should know higher. I first observed this mindset a long time in the past with a 1976 New Yorker journal cowl satirically depicting the whole lot west of Manhattan as wasteland. Then there was disparagement of the center of our nation as “flyover states,” and let’s not overlook the dismissal of the “deplorables.”
I’m quite nicely educated and advised that I’m fairly clever. I’ve identified a lot of people who’ve not gone past highschool and who will not be solely clever however educated about social points, economics, international coverage and way more. But all of them conveyed the denigration they really feel from our formally educated dictators.
If we lose this election to Trump, it will likely be attributable to our vanity and willful ignorance. I hope we don’t, and I hope we study.
Paul Malykont, Los Osos, Calif.
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To the editor: Is it attainable younger folks don’t shudder on the point out of Hitler’s identify?
I used to be 12 years outdated when World Warfare II ended and my dad and mom started receiving letters from Europe. They sat on the kitchen desk and skim them out loud, sobbing as they discovered of siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles and neighbors, all slaughtered by Hitler. It was not solely Jews, but in addition the infirm, the so-called deviants, political enemies, anybody he didn’t like.
When a retired common tells us that Trump wished he had Hitler’s generals, we should always all shudder.
Florence Weinberger, Malibu
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To the editor: Trump ought to suppose twice if he needs generals with the identical loyalty as those that served Hitler. It was a few of these generals behind the Operation Valkyrie tried assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944.
Cary Adams, North Hollywood
