Crispus Attucks
While I have nothing against a motion by Boston City Councilor Brian Worrell looking to create a monument or statue in honor of Crispus Attucks (“Councilor moves to honor Crispus Attucks,” Boston Herald, March 6), I don’t know why all five patriots killed by British soldiers on March 5, 1770 shouldn’t be equally honored. They all died as Americans. Why is there this need to divide up our heroes based on race or ethnicity?
I know Worrell’s heart is in the right place but all five men killed 243 years ago are honored together as they died together. In a sense, this Attucks’ honor is part of a history erasing project. March 6 should not be renamed Crispus Attucks Day any more than renaming this anniversary after Sam Maverick or Patrick Carr, etc.
I remember back on March 5, 1970 I stood in a crowd of folks near what is now the Irish Famine Monument at School and Washington Street on the 200th anniversary of this pivotal event that led up to the American Revolution. I stood there for all the Americans who died that day at the hands of the British soldiers. Let’s honor them all equally. They all were all American heroes and should be remembered and honored by all of us. They still represent all of us.
Sal Giarratani
East Boston
State of the Union
A loud, angry and bitter president shouted the State of the Union address. Democratic myrmidons, acting like trained jumping Jacks and Jills, completed the annual spectacle by robotically acclaiming Mr. Biden’s exaggerations, boasts and outright lies. This was not a SOTU address; it was instead a compilation of prevarications more fit for the campaign hustings than the House chamber. I learned nothing about my country. The speech did, however, reinforce my inclination to mute further Biden tirades.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
Vengeance
I usually always agree with everything Peter Lucas writes about but I disagree with him about his column “Trashing Trump could come back to haunt Healey,” on March 7.
Unlike Maura Healey, Donald Trump is not a vengeful man and would never do anything that would hurt the people of Massachusetts. Sorry, I meant to say the taxpayers of Massachusetts.
I know that vengeance is how many politicians operate in this new world, just ask Michelle Wu, but when Donald Trump gets in office that will stop.
Michael Westen
Malden
