I have been following the letters in the Glendale News-Press Community
Forum for the past several months.
After reading an article ("Old Glory to fly at half-staff"), on the
front page of the paper April 18, regarding Glendale Mayor Gus Gomez
signing a proclamation ordering the city to lower the American flag to
half-staff to commemorate the Armenian Genocide, I felt compelled to
write this letter.
It appears that Mayor Gomez and other council members who have
supported lowering the American flag have failed to think this act
through.
The act of lowering the flag is, in itself, discriminatory, as it
gives preferential treatment to a specific and ethnic group. The act of
lowering the flag will not unite this city but will divide it.
What concerns me most is that Mayor Gomez and other council members
appear to have allowed their emotions to make their decision and have
failed to make a decision on what is best for Glendale.
If the mayor and council members made this decision, what kind of
decisions can we expect from them in the future?
STEVE CLOUGH
La Crescenta
