DEAR EDITOR:

To those who compare President Trump to Adolf Hitler, I urge you to reconsider. While stationed in Germany, I visited Dachau Concentration Camp and saw firsthand the evidence of Hitler’s atrocities. He was responsible for the systematic murder of millions of civilians.

To equate that level of evil with any American president is not only historically inaccurate but also diminishes the memory of those who suffered and died u nder true tyranny.

Ask the Jewish families who fled Europe during and after World War II whether they see a similarity. For them, the Holocaust was not an abstract lesson — it was life and death. Casual comparisons to Hitler trivialize their suffering.

Whatever your view of Trump’s policies, the record shows that his administration worked to strengthen America’s borders and pursued peace abroad. His team helped foster dialogue and agreements among long-time rivals: Azerbaijan and Armenia, Israel and Arab nations through the Abraham Accords, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and more. These efforts were aimed at stability, not conquest.

As veterans who have lived overseas, many of us recognize the difference between authoritarian rule and the checks and balances of American democracy. Trump was an elected president operating within constitutional limits — not a dictator with unchecked power.

It is also important to consider the role of media narratives. Many major networks openly oppose Trump, which shapes the way events are reported. Healthy debate is vital in a democracy, but it must be grounded in fact rather than sensational comparisons that distort history.

Adolf Hitler orchestrated genocide and world war. Donald Trump, whether one agrees with him or not, was — and is — a president within the framework of the U.S. Constitution. To conflate the two is not only misleading — it erodes the seriousness of what real tyranny looked like.

LARRY YORK

Warren