Hope for the future
Watching Wednesday night’s news coverage, I was overwhelmed by Rachel Maddow’s interview with the three young women students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and their roles in the “March For Our Lives” events throughout our country.
These young women’s articulate, discerning and passionate declaration for action to resolve our national tragedies of school shootings and our seeming inability to address gun control measures were humbling and a wake-up call for action.
Thank you for reminding us that there are bigger issues than ourselves. I can’t wait for you to come of voting age because it seems that we “adults” have lost sight of our responsibilities to our country.
Michael Grigsby
Hawaiian Paradise Park
Clinton a role model
I thought Kathleen Parker had reformed under the destructive presidency of Donald Trump, but I see by the column, “Hillary, just stop. Please” (March 16, Tribune-Herald), that she is ruining her recently restored reputation as a journalist by woman-bashing.
Did you have to publish this in the middle of Women’s History Month?
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a role model for so many of us: the first woman candidate for presidency nominated by a major political party, secretary of state, senator and first lady.
She has and continues to be a model for us about how to go on gracefully after various life challenges and disappointments.
Margaret Drake
Volcano
Do better
I was shocked to see students laughing and standing on the very edge of a busy road waving signs at Waiakea Intermediate during a school day (on March 14).
It didn’t look much like a protest, but more a fun excuse to leave class, with no thought to the safety and welfare of these youth.
Puainako Street is a very busy road, and one inerrant driver could have easily been distracted and taken out a bunch of these children.
The “adults” at this school need to be held accountable. How could they allow this?
If I had a child at this school, I would be livid. What I do not understand is why the students couldn’t protest in their play field or patio area, as most schools did.
Also, did the students understand the gravity of what happened in Parkland or their own safety in the moment? It didn’t appear so.
Educators, you can do better than this.
Karen Welsh
Hilo