To the Editor:
Concerning kings: this holiday season we have been presented with two different visions of monarchs to contemplate. First is Good King (actually Duke and posthumous Saint) Wenceslaus of Bohemia, whose praises we traditionally sing in honor of his kindness and charity for venturing into a bitter winter storm to give alms to a poor man on St. Stephen’s Day (December 26) sometime in the 10th century. The other is wannabe king Donald, who has portrayed himself wearing an imaginary crown and flying a fighter jet while dumping excrement on his unruly “subjects” below. Perhaps if King George III had behaved more like the former and less like the latter the American colonists would not have felt the need to rise up against him, and we would all still happily be British citizens worshiping in proper Anglican churches. Or maybe none of our ancestors would have fled European monarchies for these shores in the first place.
Paul Hanke
Warren
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