Letter: We are no longer a democracy
(Virginia Mayo | AP photo) In this photo taken on Aug. 8, 2019, visitors walk among the headstones at the Henri Chapelle World War II cemetery in Henri Chapelle, Belgium. The cemetery contains 7,992 American war dead and covers 57 acres. It was 75 years before that Hitler launched his last desperate attack to turn the tide for Germany in World War II. At first, German forces drove so deep through the front line in Belgium and Luxembourg that the month-long fighting came to be known as The Battle of the Bulge.
By Nicholas Cavallaro | The Public Forum
| Oct. 22, 2020, 1:07 p.m.
One hundred years ago, my grandparents emigrated from Italy to the United States to escape the oppression of fascism. When World War II began, my uncle Nicholas joined the 82nd Airborne as a paratrooper to fight Nazism and fascism. After earning a Purple Heart, he was killed at the Battle of the Bulge.
Wouldn’t my grandparents be horrified that their son lost his life defending the adopted country they so loved, only to have it become like the country they were forced to abandon?
Donald Trump’s America is no longer a democracy.
Nicholas Cavallaro, Salt Lake City
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