{"id":842,"date":"2025-07-16T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:20:24","slug":"trumps-and-bergums-fear-of-u-s-history-makes-them-snowflakes-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/trumps-and-bergums-fear-of-u-s-history-makes-them-snowflakes-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s and Bergum\u2019s fear of U.S. history makes them snowflakes (Letters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too fragile to understand our history?<\/h4>\n

Re: “Signs posted seen as threats to ‘whitewash’ dark side of history<\/a>,” June 28 news story<\/p>\n

The term \u201csnowflake\u201d is often used to insult political liberals. With the power invested in me as a U.S. citizen, I nominate President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Bergum our Snowflakes in Chief.<\/p>\n

Are these men so fragile and fearful that they need to waste and abuse our time and space by defacing signs in our National Parks and Monuments because these two men can\u2019t cope with the truth?<\/p>\n

Bergum says signage should highlight the beauty of these places. We are people with sense.\u00a0 We do not need signage to tell us what is beautiful.<\/p>\n

Are President Trump and Secretary Bergum insulting our intelligence to infer that visitors to these sacred places cannot simultaneously appreciate beauty and absorb difficult information about past occurrences?\u00a0Shame on them!<\/p>\n

Face the truth! Do what the people say! Hire more rangers and maintain the trails!<\/p>\n

Evan Siegel, Westminster<\/em><\/p>\n

Sad to see\u00a0 the end of Job Corps<\/h4>\n

Re: “Great Society-era program on the chopping block,” June 29 news story<\/p>\n

I was saddened to read the article, which states that 99 Job Corps centers across the country have been ordered to close because of low graduation rates and failure to achieve the intended outcomes of its charter.\u00a0 What an inglorious end to a program that benefited so many young people during its formative and early years.<\/p>\n

I served as a remedial education teacher in two conservation centers in the first two years of the program’s existence in 1965 and 1966 and as a consultant to the program for several more years.\u00a0 In those early years all enrollees participated in meaningful and productive work programs during the day and in education programs in the evening.\u00a0 The outcomes of both program components made enrollees and staff, as well as program auditors and members of Congress, proud of their association with the program.<\/p>\n

The program has obviously deteriorated over the years.\u00a0 I’m sorry this is coming to an end, but it appears it is no longer the stellar program it once was.<\/p>\n

Mark McGoff, Arvada<\/em><\/p>\n

What does Denver’s Central Library need?<\/h4>\n

Re: “Denver spent $60 million on its library — and it still closes every Friday<\/a>,” July 10 commentary<\/p>\n