To the editor:

This year the great irony is that while we watch a pretend reenactment of a 400 year old attack on our town by the British monarchy our very same town is under direct attack by our own national government lead by the Trump administration.

This enemy from within is ruining our retirement savings plans, disabling our Social Security, inflicting us with potential health disasters of measles for the children, HIV for the vulnerable and reduced benefits for Medicaid and Medicare patients, our immigrant labor force is being forcibly deported, our best universities being strangled and our hard won savings destroyed. Sheer insanity!

The prospect of waiting two years to kick these bums out of Washington at the voting booth is very hard to contemplate. Perhaps we can organize a lengthy communal expedition to happiness loving Bhutan leaving the internet behind, or better yet a permanent vacation to northern Canada, to take shelter under the maple leaf’s umbrella of sanity and universal healthcare, while drinking clean water, breathing clean air and fishing for world class lake trout.

George Burman
Bristol

The writer is referring to reenactments planned for the weekend of May 16-18 to celebrate two Revolutionary-era incidents that occurred in Bristol, known collectively as the Bristol Raids. They occurred 250 years ago, not 400.