Readers Write: Kudos to Curran for keeping Teddy Roosevelt statue

The Island Now

The destruction of monuments having gravitated from a few confederate generals to every bit of our history insight is an unraveling of all America, if not checked.

As a son of Holocaust survivors – a Jew – shall I call for the destruction of monuments/statues of anti-Semites around America? Where would I begin and where would I end? Ford, Stuyvesant, Tom Watson, Robert Byrd …how about the Pharaohs at the Met? Contextual plaques are one thing – wanton destruction is another.

The hard left cannot be satiated until everything is destroyed.

Laura – you can’t say it – but you are a rare Democrat to stand at a limit. I thank you for refusing to remove Teddy Roosevelt, one of my American heroes and that of my former boss – Gov. Pataki.

Do not be intimidated!

Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld

Great Neck

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