NOT-SO-OLD FOLKS

Is it any wonder the elderly in this country are treated with such disrespect?

Jack Hawn spends the opening paragraphs of his article marveling that Carlton Morse is still ambulatory and not in a wheelchair or rest home at the age of 85 (“Heart and Soul of radio Days,” April 19). How insulting.

Doesn’t he realize our President is only a decade younger? That a woman in her 80s ran in the Boston Marathon? Has he never heard of Rep. Claude Pepper?

When are we going to stop treating old people like feeble relics? They are to be treasured for the wisdom of their years and life experience, beginning with Hawn’s own article on Morse. The only feeble minds are those who think like your reporter.

CAROLE RASCHELLA

Northridge