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The highest democracy

Mon., Aug. 28, 2017

Could the president be as sympathetic to his white power adherents if he had ever been to the Holocaust Museum or read the following from the Marine Corps Chaplin at the dedication of the 5th Marine Iwo Jima Cemetery:

“Here lie officers and men, Negroes and Whites, rich men and poor, together. Here are Protestants, Catholics and Jews together. Here no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of his color. Here there are no quotas of how many from each group are admitted or allowed. Among these men there is no discrimination. No prejudices. No Hatred. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy.”

President Trump should be reminded of these sentiments.

Harold Miller

Liberty Lake

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