Our own worst enemy

Sun., July 19, 2020

It never occurred to me that COVID-19 masks could be a human rights issue, until my loved one who was wearing one of those, and his “Disabled Veteran” ball cap, was knocked to the ground, with that mask pointlessly torn from him. This was on his way home from his VA PTSD appointment!

For years in the service he took no life, but saved it as a paramedic, and denied no one. His life, and his children’s, will now be further marred, for absolutely no reason. YES!! People’s lives matter. And we need to remember that …. And that there are human souls under those masks. I believe the comic book character Pogo said it best: “We have met the enemy, and HE is Us. “

Catherine Humberg

Spokane

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