To the Editor:

Saturday, May 6, with the Altamont American Legion Leatherstocking Honor Flight to Washington DC, I experienced one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most heartbreaking days of my life.

Through the courtesy and goodwill of a Legionnaire Steve Oliver, I was asked to be a participant in the flight.

Visually it was beautiful: the capitol; the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; changing of the guard at the soldier’s grave: memorial site to Army, Navy, Seabees, Marines Etc. were magnificent to behold. Memories, good, bad, and sad came to the fore —almost impossible to describe.

Everything portrayed what used to be and hopefully preserve for the future. But unfortunately, in my opinion, the political whores that have persisted in wasting for years both Republican and Democrat, have slowly been erasing a lifestyle that used to be.

Let’s hope we get back on track and return to that lifestyle that used to be, not perfect but more comfortable and unified. To be more specific we must rid ourselves of the ideological groups that have only their own agendas.

Fools at the political-hate protesters, on both sides of the coin; although mostly left, they are slowly dividing the country and tearing it apart.

God help the future of our growing youngsters who are being led down the path to political extermination.

George Pratt

Police Chief

Retired

Altamont