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Let’s do our parts
to preserve legacies
Re: “Rosies, others fight to maintain legacies” (Page A1, March 21).
Thank you for Sierra Lopez’s article on the Trump administration’s attempt to erase history.
Over a decade ago, I wrote a feasibility study for the city of Richmond that helped secure federal funds for local restoration projects. During this process, residents took me to many significant sites, including the Miraflores greenhouses, which were shut down during the Japanese internment. I also had the privilege of meeting some of the last remaining “riveters” and touring the remnants of the Pullman factories, which once employed local men as stewards. Erasing these histories diminishes the rich, complex past of the Bay Area.
On April 13, I will return to lead a group tour of these sites to celebrate the community’s revitalization. I hope others will join this free trip as we work to preserve the full history of American culture.
Curt Collier
Palo Alto
MAGA isn’t making
anything great
I’m embarrassed to be a U.S. citizen.
MAGA is not making anything great. I used to be proud and respected when traveling outside the United States, but that has vanished. Donald Trump has made nothing great except his ego.
We as a nation have lost respect in the world, and that is something that will take years to recover. I wish to tell the world that not all Americans are like Trump, and I am sorry.
Dana Clark
Gilroy
Leaders must pay for
national security breach
Re: “Intelligence breach over chat leak angers U.S. military pilots” (Page A5, March 28).
It is pure incompetence that top cabinet members communicated about secret war plans over an unapproved messaging app. They don’t even have the decency or guts to admit that they shouldn’t have done so. This lack of personal responsibility adds to the horror of what they have done because they will likely do something else just as alarming and stupid. Donald Trump and his cronies are downplaying this gross breach of national security, further demonstrating the lack of law, the arrogance and the disregard for our military personnel’s safety in the Trump administration.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz should resign. If they don’t resign, they should be impeached. Congress is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. They need to act like it by setting up and conducting oversight to prevent intelligence breaches and the theft of our government.
Karen Mandel
San Jose
Trump got an America
that was already great
The America that Donald Trump inherited on Jan. 20 was pretty great and certainly did not need to be made so again.
America was leading the world in the job-creating, economy-boosting transition to sustainable energy. America was a trusted ally among nations that have helped preserve a largely peaceful world order for 70 years. The American economy was in very good shape, with historic gains in the job market and the stock market.
Trump is making America less great with each passing day. He has ceded leadership in the clean-energy industry to China, eviscerated our allies while cozying up with our adversaries, and through tariff chaos, is driving us into a recession. The unqualified people he put in charge of our most important institutions have already caused tremendous damage (e.g., Houthi war plans on Signal) and it will only get worse.
We must all raise our voices to save America.
Karl Danz
Los Altos
Musk, Trump seem
to be unstoppable
Elon Musk can do whatever he wants. He can buy elections and destroy the United States government. He is so rich that the Republicans fear him. If they challenge him, he will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat them.
Musk can accuse anyone he disagrees with as being a traitor, like he did to Sen. Mark Kelly, and get away with it. Musk can destroy our government, and no one will stand in his way out of fear of being sued or primaried. Donald Trump and Musk are the ultimate dictatorship. Trump is king, and Musk is his strong man.
Republicans are 100% behind them. I haven’t heard one of my Republican friends take any stand against Trump or Musk. This is not going to end well for any of us.
Thomas Sutton
San Jose
Myanmar gives us
a chance to give
Re: “Massive earthquake rocks Myanmar and Thailand” (Page A2, March 29).
Myanmar, already one of the poorest countries in the world, has been hit by a gigantic earthquake. No doubt, its beleaguered citizens will need help.
In these difficult times, as we weigh whether or not to render aid in kind or money, please remember that “aid” is never a one-way street. Of course, the person receiving aid will benefit, but so will the person giving aid. We benefit in ways that are both tangible and intangible when we offer help to others.
I urge all who can to donate to reputable organizations such as the Red Cross to help those poor souls in Myanmar.
Myokyaw Myint
San Jose