DEAR EDITOR:
My heart hurt when I read Mr. Gilmore’s letter, calling for an
end to the
”
lionization
”
of Mrs. Florence Trimble, and I at first felt anger.
DEAR EDITOR:
My heart hurt when I read Mr. Gilmore’s letter, calling for an end to the “lionization” of Mrs. Florence Trimble, and I at first felt anger. However, as I do now as a result of Mrs. Trimble having made me more aware of my responses and my actions in response to injustice that makes me angry or hurt, I asked myself what she would say.
Of course, she would say to Mr. Gilmore, “I agree with you! Enough already!” But that’s because she was as self-effacing as she was effective in the public arena where I knew her.
However, despite the fact she would have poo-pooed the fuss, it’s clear that she had a marked, wonderful effect on the City of Gilroy and its inhabitants, and beyond. And that’s what I love about The Dispatch, and why I look forward to unrolling it my driveway and turn straight to the letters/opinions section. It provides a forum for public debate and comment about EVERYTHING.
This time, instead of reading about the rules of logic and argument, who’s racist, who’s not, etc., we are reading the public expression of grief of our neighbors, a grief that is as profound as the impact of the woman they mourn. I don’t find that in any other paper, and I can’t say enough how special that is and how deeply I appreciate it.
Dina Campeau, Morgan Hill
Submitted Wednesday, Feb. 12 to ed****@****ic.com
