To the editor:

I just finished ‘Here and There' opinion column in the Tuesday edition of the Democrat: Hate Not Needed.

He started out with the premise regarding ‘a deeply divided Country'. As he continued, one could see where he might be headed and then there was the totally unnecessary, one sentence paragraph: “One just has to wonder why so many people hate America?”

True enough there's hate in America but I truly believe that for the most part, people on both sides of this ‘divide' do love their country. What they ‘hate' (to use Ed's term) is probably their view about the direction it's going. (That's why we vote, protest/ write letters to the editor/etc).

His article could have been much more effective if that sentence had been ‘edited'- OUT.