To the editor:
Jan. 27 was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. At 3 p.m. that afternoon in 1945, Soviet army scouts entered the remnant of an extermination camp, Auschwitz One, the main camp. Adolf Hitler incinerated, as part of an industrial extermination plan, over 6 million Jews.
Eleven million human beings died in those extermination camps. There were nine camps. Trinka killed over 1 million alone. This was the evilest regime in history.
Over 400,000 American soldiers gave their lives in the war to stop Hitler from imposing slavery over all human civilization.
Recently, I saw Elon Musk gave a full-fledged neo-Nazi salute behind the podium. Twice. There will be those that refute that fact, just like some deny the Holocaust. I know what I saw.
The current president has also provided the same man, Elon Musk, an office at the White House.
I’m heartbroken, shamed and extraordinarily disgusted as an American and I want to apologize to our remaining veterans of World War II, like my deceased father that served in the Pacific.
Your sacrifice should not have been dishonored in this way. I did not vote for this administration to conduct itself this way because I knew they would. I’m deeply sorry that they did, nevertheless.
John F. Orlando
Van Buren
