Obama Hiroshima visit and West Point cadets: Second Look

Letter to the editor:

Don’t go to Hiroshima

When President Obama goes to Japan for his summit this month, he should not go to Hiroshima. It should be the Japanese prime minister who comes to Pearl Harbor first to pay respect. Then, with the consent of World War II veterans, Obama may go.

Otherwise, the president is doing what has been his trademark: showing disrespect for Americans who fought and died for our freedom.

I doubt he would take my advice or from any other American who is not in his clique. In this country, our great right is to speak out when we as citizens see something wrong and unfair, and I am sure many more veterans who wore the uniform of this country feel the same.

The people who never served our country in uniform, in war or peacetime, who hold high position in our country don’t care and have no shame.

Garry Allyn DeManty; Stockton, Calif.

Letter to the editor:

West Point cadets

The 16 female cadets photographed with their fists raised were not making a black power statement but just celebrating their accomplishment (“West Point cadets deserved due process: Column”). They didn’t realize that some people would get the wrong interpretation.

Angela Diehl Eatough