The man who wrote the letter to the editor, “Reasonable people have had enough,” and the two men who replied to it all said they lived in California for over a decade. That means something to me.
My husband’s and my family members have lived in the Bay Area 50-plus years, in the case of my brother’s family, and in the LA area 90-plus years in the case of my husband’s stepfather’s family.
Both Dad’s family and my brother’s continue to live in Southern California, my brother having moved close to their daughter’s family just north of San Diego a few years ago.
My sister-in-law told me that she truthfully hates her new area, but the rest of the family love it. When we visited there this spring, she explained that she mourns the loss of her friends, activities and surroundings of a lifetime. But, true to her loving spirit, she recently threw herself into dedicated work in their new church near Wildomar.
Each of us chooses whether to fit ourselves into new surroundings or “kick at the pricks” there. If bad-mouthing where you came from helps you adjust to far-north Idaho life, so be it.
All of Dad’s three sons continue to love where they are, and Dad and Rob’s three stepbrothers all consider themselves Christian Nationalists.
But maybe the three men writing LTE here do not consider themselves in the same camp as Rob’s family.
Clarice McKenney
Bonners Ferry