Sad day in Connecticut

[aray]

Very nice letter. Did it actually get printed? That would be great if it did!

Thanks for the kind words. It is in the online edition. They generally keep that up for about a week then expire the links. They have a policy of only printing one letter per reader per month (!) so the better course is to make comments on their web pages where the number of postings is unlimited (if you can fit each one in 250 words).

For now that link is here, and it includes a reply to what i wrote and a further reply by me: http://www.capitalgazette.com/maryla...718d625d6.html

[JustinN]

At least it is up for people to see and read. Probably more exposure online than in print.

[aray]

I need some educat'n about Chamberlain. I know he was the PM and about the Munich agreement and his part to bring England into the war. What am I missing here when it comes to our discussion--please be kind.

The reason UK PM Neville Chamberlain was cited because he was an appeaser in the face of violence & tyranny. He thought if he gave Adolf Hitler everything he wanted, that Hitler would “play nice”. It is now almost universally acknowledged that by rolling belly side up for Germany, that gave the German war machine time to build their strength even more – while of course at the same time sacrificing the freedom of the countries Hitler kept demanding (Rhineland, Saarland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, etc.) and dooming them to the nightmare ahead.

Chamberlain was followed by Winston Churchill, who of course was one of the UK’s greatest wartime PMs of all time. But by then, the UK was already under existential threat, thanks to the lead granted to Hitler and Germany by Chamberlain.

Neville Chamberlain, rightly, has become a by-word for appeasers in the face of bullies, against surrendering your rights and “hoping” things go well for you.

For him to throw that in Morgan’s face was actually quite an insult and one that Morgan well understood.

Don’t worry if you didn’t get all of that. The sad state of the US educational system is such that this is about the *last* thing they would ever want to teach anymore.