Letters

Ed Surgan’s letter, “Mostly Wrong” [December 10], brought up a question that has troubled me for most of my entire life.

I was too young to understand what had happened and formulate this question when I met, for the first time, relatives who had escaped Europe before the Holocaust. The same was true several years later, when, for the first time, I met other relatives who were lucky to survive the Holocaust in Europe.

It wasn’t until high school when I was able to comprehend the enormity of what had occurred, and question: How did this happen? After all, the German people were among the most educated, cultured and scientifically advanced people on the planet. How could a depraved individual capture their minds and cause them to participate in such evil? I was convinced that this was only a European phenomenon, even after Jonestown.

So, Ed, when you lift up your glass of Kool-Aid, or Clorox, to toast your leader for the disasters he and the Republicans have brought to this great country of ours … you should know that you are wrong, and Phil Keith is “Mostly Right.”

Stephen Ring

Hampton Bays