Editor: Going on seven ….

Editor:

Going on seven months we’ve been reading and hearing about people disrespecting each other, making threats and false reports, graffiti, destruction of personal property and more. Do you know that all of these actions and reactions happened here in Leisure World. All of these examples were over a “flag.”

We live in a retirement community and we see in the news destruction of private businesses, disrespect to police officers, and looting and burning without regard to innocent protestors, bystanders, the elderly and children.

In Leisure World we understand that we are in a political campaign and that there will be differences in political opinions. We know better; we are adults, but there is a group of people here acting out like the criminals that are causing all the trouble in Seattle, Portland, NYC, Chicago and Rochester. In the last two weeks, one of our proud disabled residents had a flag flying in front of his unit and the very next morning he found that flag shredded in pieces left at his doorway. He went out and bought another flag but changed his mind about posting it because he did not want further trouble. He gave me that flag, and it now flies proudly on the flagpole at the corner of Del Monte and McKinney Way.

We are better than this, for

God’s sake lets remember Luke 6:31: Do to others as you would have them do to you.

David Harlow, Mutual 15