I did not know George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, defended looters in Iraq after they stole artifacts from the National Museum in 2003 until I read Robert Azzi’s article published in the June 28 Sunday Monitor.
I am ashamed to admit I was not fully aware that Winston Churchill, an admired world leader during World War II, was conspicuously racist; that among other acts of oppression, he spoke openly and with frightening contempt for revolting Kurds in Iraq in 1919 and about Gandhi, who he suggested be bound at the gates of Delhi and trampled by an elephant.
I did not know Franklin Pierce objected to President Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus for those imprisoned for merely objecting to the civil war until I read Garry Boulard’s excellent article, also published in the June 28 Sunday Monitor.
Finally, I always learn something new from Jonathan Baird’s well-written and researched columns. “The end of fairy tale history” published in the June 14 Sunday Monitor was most informative and is well worth checking out if you missed it.
Thanks to each author for caring about their subject matter and their audience by offering fact-based columns that are illuminating and provocative. Thank you, Concord Monitor, for publishing them.
PAULA HURLEY
Concord