Nov. 13, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: I admire visitor contributor Joanna Davidson’s op-ed in regards to the Trump administration’s ongoing makes an attempt to vary our language to replicate its authoritarian and militaristic designs on life in our nation (“Trump’s idea to rename Veterans Day fizzled for good reason,” Nov. 11).
Nonetheless, she uncared for to level out that previous to President Trump’s proposed renaming of Veterans Day, it had already been renamed many years earlier. The vacation was initially referred to as Armistice Day, an remark of the tip of World Warfare I and presumably a celebration of the blessings of peace.
The trimmings of militarism in our historical past lengthy predate Trump and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth’s enjoyment of saber-rattling (to say nothing of Trump’s threats of nuclear testing or their murderous, likely illegal destruction of small boats and their occupants within the Caribbean Sea).
Right here’s a fervent want for a peaceable world — and for the trustworthy use of honorable language.
Alan Myerson, Malibu
