It’s not always what you say, but how you say it

Editor: I thought I would wait until the dust settled before responding to the flag flying letters. However, at the risk of creating more dust, here goes.

Prior to November 2017 we displayed our flag on the appointed holidays, without judging those who don’t. Reference LNS, Lodi Living Section dated Veterans Day 2017 (Unexpected Echoes). A superbly written story by Kyla Cathey recounting how my father’s 103rd Infantry Division sacrificed themselves during WWII and how we discovered the details some 80-plus years later, which included liberating a Holocaust concentration camp and nearly onethird of his 15,000 fellow soldiers paying the “ultimate sacrifice.” As a result we decided to display our family’s flag daily to honor the “Greatest Generation” as well as all veterans. Again, without judgment or “attitude.” No “signaling” just good old fashioned honor.

Viewing our flag should catalyze one’s own positive feelings rather than create speculation as to what motives precipitate their neighbor’s actions. This in itself is somewhat “divisive.” While strolling in my ‘hood I would rather not consider it.

In any event, perhaps the flag police, when conducting their door-todoor searches to uncover these bad guys, might consider the services of those up-and-coming Gladys Kravitz’s of our nation to help patrol all our neighborhoods. To be understood sometimes it’s not what one says but how one says it. MIKE KAMINSKI Lodi