Editorial right on hearings

The Island Now

Thank you for the Our Views editorial, “A Sense of Decency.”

It was so gratifying to know that others were as moved as I by Keith Ellison and the story he related about Mohammed Salman Hamdani, who died trying to rescue people on 9/11.

It is unfathomable to me that we have not learned from the history you cited in reminding readers of the Army-McCarthy Hearings of the 1950s in which Senator Joseph McCarthy used HUAC to accuse Americans of being enemies of the state.

The Dark Ages of those times need not be revisited, and I agree wholeheartedly with your analogy.

I hope we do have “a sense of decency” and can retain the ideals of a society that has been so enriched by the immigrant populations that have made us a great nation.

Naomi Feldheim

Great Neck

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