‘A Day of Infamy’ Hits Innocent Targets

Re “A Day of Infamy,” editorial cartoon, May 27: Michael Ramirez attacks the children’s teachers (be these teachers in the classrooms of our schools, the parents of the children, the friends of the family) by the final inquiry of the sixth teen/adult/child or who knows what, which reads, “What’s history?”

Alas, Ramirez attacks again ... but whom? At what age did you truly understand the background and causes of World War II?

Having taught for 35 years in the public schools, my charges were in the dark (from 1956-90) when I raised the issue of World War I. This was not different from when my own history teacher in 1945 raised the issue of the Spanish-American War and WWI.

Cartoonist Ramirez: Get a life; attack when appropriate; name the ones being attacked; don’t hide behind innuendo or an allusion. At one time, we were all in the dark about some aspect of history, i.e., until we were exposed to it.

Jerry Aronow

Hollywood