Opinion

A holiday faux pas? O’s Vets Day abroad

THE ISSUE: Pres. Obama’s trip abroad, which kept him from marking Veterans Day at home.

***

Did President Obama intentionally time it to be out of the country for one of the most important days in the United States (“Bam AWOL on Vets Day,” Charles Hurt, Nov. 11)?

What else will this president not do for our country? He seems to be running out of excuses.

President Obama: Veterans Day is the same date next year.

What will your plans be then?

John Colombo

Whitestone

***

Charles Hurt’s commentary is a disgrace.

Hurt suggests that Obama is out gallivanting and pathetically seeking foreign praise rather than honoring our veterans’ sacrifice.

Obama was obviously abroad on Veterans Day for the G20 summit.

It’s one thing to disagree with the president on his policies or not think that he is doing a good job.

But to fill the paper with this type of analysis serves no purpose but to divide the country and distract attention from true issues.

Most importantly, the article also detracts from Veterans Day by using what should be an occasion to honor our veterans to instead take a cheap political potshot.

If anyone was AWOL, it was Hurt.

Charles LeGrand

Plainfield, N.J.

***

I fail to understand why Hurt devoted an entire column criticizing Obama for being in South Korea on Nov. 11.

He is not the first president to be abroad on Veterans Day.

He spent the day visiting some of the 28,000 American servicemen who are stationed in Korea.

Frank Paul Venis

Chicago, Ill.