Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Survival is priority #1! Trump is an arrogant, aggressive, profane piece-of-work with a personality and character not unlike the scores of bold Navy and USAF fighter pilots I flew with in combat over North Vietnam and with whom I endured the misery and uncertainty of 6½ years in the communist POW camps.

I’d fly your wing anywhere, Donald, even through the fires of hell like those flak-filled skies over Hanoi … because I believe you could get me there and back. If we didn’t return, we’d at least go down fighting for genuine American ideals and honor!

Choosing now, between Hillary and Trump should be far easier than the life-or-death decisions I and countless other warriors had to make in Vietnam. Suicide or survival. The choice is ours!

Al Carpenter

Cobbs Creek, Va. ...