The ‘Great War’ a century later

Hoboken, N.J.: A reflection on the century anniversary of World War I’s ending in 1917: The War to End All Wars — that was the thought a hundred years ago when your father, grandfather and mine were given a khaki uniform and a helmet, and sent to fight the trench wars, where the bayonet was a dominant killer, along with mustard gas.

Most of the Americans gassed were never able to return to their own homes, and spent the rest of their lives at veterans hospitals with plenty of grass and trees.

The New York and New Jersey harbors were points of embarkation, where thousands of troops departed from troop trains and then boarded giant cruise ships transformed into troop ships to sail to Brittany and Ireland. Yes, I have many stories of how my own dad joined the U.S. Marines and spent his enlistment in Cuba and Haiti. Proud of you, Pop. Always remember. Jack O’Brien

Bets on vets

Manhattan: IBM is hiring 2,000 U.S. veterans — good for them. Veterans don’t always count in the scheme of things. People forgot that they fought.

Ruth Unterberg

A higher power

Leesburg, Va.: Helen Keller once wrote: “I feel that God is in me the way the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.” That is one of the most brilliant concepts anyone has ever come up with. I’d hate to be an atheist reading that, knowing that no one on our “side” has ever come up with anything one-hundredth as intelligent as that. Don Hutnick

Clear lens on White House

Brooklyn: People are human beings created by God, and at the judgment seat must answer to God. I have a book called “The Five Negro Presidents,” by J.A. Rogers. On the cover is President Warren Harding holding his maternal grand-uncle, Oliver Harding. Previously, white people had loudly proclaimed three other Presidents as being of Negro ancestry: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. None of these men showed the slightest degree of Negro strain. Barack Obama was not the first black President. Everyone knew he was black because of his skin color. If people would stop calling others biracial and instead begin to view people as human beings, it would probably change the world. You will be surprised to find a black Jesus. He came from a hot country, and those blond pictures do not portray the same Jesus who died at Calvary for the sins of everyone. Carrie L. Suter Bayside: Has anyone else noticed that Donald Trump’s signature looks exactly like a lie detector graph? Louise Calleo

Hate in his ear

Bronx: Sorry, Don, semantics won’t suffice: The alt-right is simply KKK, hateful, racist rhetoric. Which you, Don, have chosen as your head adviser. Let’s pray that Trump’s ego takes a vacation and lets him realize that news reporters are committed to telling the public the honest truth, not alternative truths. Although some of us did not go to Yale, we’re smart enough to know that just because Donald says it, that doesn’t make it true.

Horace A. Heckstall Staten Island: The election is over. The people have spoken. Donald Trump is the President of the United States. Now that he has achieved this goal, President Trump should try to be more diplomatic. He should stop the ad hominem attacks on his adversaries and stick with the issues. Trump should realize that many people across the country, especially children, look up to and try to emulate whomever the President may be at the time. He is a major public example. This is a big responsibility. Trump is entitled to his beliefs, but I wish he would hold back on his cruel, venomous, degrading remarks aimed at opponents. America has always worked on compromise. No President can expect every one of his policies will be accepted and approved. Let’s try for a kinder, gentler America — with a strong military, of course.

Dean Hogarth

Spare the animals

Bayside: I adore cats and dogs. Why are we subjected to TV commercials showing these precious, innocent but badly neglected and abused animals? And why aren’t funds provided for their care? These so-called commercials are heart-wrenching, and more than can be endured. No animal, anywhere, ought to be neglected or abused. No animal should suffer.

Sarah Alboher

Remembering Yadira Arroyo

Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: For 66 of my 82 years, I lived in New York City, in Manhattan and the Bronx. The Daily News is my newspaper. March 16 was a very sad day in NYC. No other city can top New York for honoring its people in blue. Politicians, thousands of firefighters, family and friends gave a well-deserved final farewell to Yadira Arroyo. The pictures were heartrending. Five sons lost their mother, the youngest 8 years old. Where were the fathers? There are more than one, since the boys have different last names. I hope these men will be there for these boys, financially and otherwise. I wish them many blessings in the future. I hope they make their mother proud. She will be watching from above.

Eileen Griffin

Hope for homeless

Flushing: Homeless adult unemployed people must be taken off the street. The city should find vacant land, and build barracksstyle buildings there to house them in. House them, feed them and train them in some sort of work. If found to be mentally ill, they should be put in an institution and given the medical help they need. Once we take care of the single homeless we’ll find a way to take care of the families.

Evelyn Zorovich

Low-rent high rollers

Brooklyn: If Judge Debra James feels, re the Rent Guidelines Board, “The board should consider tenants’ economic situations. It’s long been accepted without question,” then high-income tenants should not participate in the rent stabilization program (“Judge backs rent freeze,” March 29). Let them pay free-market rents. Tito Colon

Chuck amuck

Flushing: Sen. Chuckie Schumer’s penchant for evil is limitless. He is not the evil genius like Goldfinger or Blofeld from the Bond movies, both more like the sneaky counterman at Katz’s or the Stage Door Deli who would slip you a fatty piece of pastrami in your sandwich when you asked him to cut it lean. As my late father from the Lower East Side would say, he’s a piece of work.

Bob Heaney

Dems all in cahoots

Easton, Pa.: Chuckie Schumer is a lowlife piece of lying Democrat garbage. Want proof? Just ask the Democrat-controlled news media, anti-American “black lives” racists, Al Sharpton, illegal immigrants, Democrat voters, Hollywood actors, sanctuary city mayors and all the Democrat, liberal, progressive nut cases out there. They’re all anti-American and anti-freedom. Many are anti-white, anti-gun, anti-Republican, anti-truth, anti-anything they don’t agree with. They’re also anti-God and love killing unborn babies. Schumer and all the above defend each other, lie for each other and kiss each other’s rear ends.

Kenneth P. Smith

No contest

Long Island City: I see a lot of people are planning to enter the upcoming mayoral race. I am really confused. I don’t know who to vote for. I think I’ll just wait for the Russians to tell me how to cast my ballot. George Higgins

Voicers on the bias

Bronx: I’ve been a fan of Voice of the People for the past 40 years, and had the pleasure of contributing quite a few times over the years letters the Daily News has graciously published. However, your diversity has greatly diminished ever since our newly elected President took office. Plain and simple, it’s making me nauseous.

Michael J. Hanahoe

Calling bull

Brooklyn: “Fearless Girl” is misguided. The Wall Street bull symbolizes a bull market and a bullish economy, which is good for both genders. “Fearless Girl”: Get out of his way and get on his side. Martin Selbst

Cough, cough

Library of Congress Bronx: To all smokers: Your cigarettes may become your sickarettes. Quit before it’s too late. Marsha Kolin