Letter to the editor: Stop the anger and hate that divides us

As a 76-year-old American, I have lived through the assassination of President Kennedy and his brother Robert and the Rev. Martin Luther King. America must stop the hateful rhetoric that accuses a political opponent of wanting to be a dictator and attacking their principles.

I lived through the Vietnam years, serving through the Tet Offensive in 1968, and saw the hate that the country had for the returning men who went where the government told them to go. We as a nation must stop the anger and hate that has divided America. What we need is a return to good old-fashioned principles taught in the Bible like, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

The media “talking heads,” as well as politicians of both parties, must stop the attacks on each other. What I want to see in the ads from the candidates is their solutions to the problems America faces, not the attacks on their opponent’s character. We must clean up our acts and repent of our own sins before we point out the next man’s. We all need to pray to God with repentant hearts and ask him to heal our land.

John Watson

North Huntingdon