Letter to the Editor: We are proud of our heritage and don't want it destroyed
Friday, November 7, 2025
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Everyone was shocked when we saw the pictures of the East Wing of the White House being demolished.
Americans, both liberal and conservative, are proud of our heritage and don’t want it destroyed! What can we do to say STOP?
All across our land, in big cities and in little towns like Shoreline, we have to stand up together and use our First Amendment rights to say NO. Americans are strong when we defend our country. To find others to stand with, look at seattle-protests.org.
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we will all hang separately.” --Benjamin Franklin
Lindsay Rahmun
North Seattle
North Seattle
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7 comments:
Geez, the drama. The East Wing only goes back to the two Roosevelt presidencies. It's not the Executive Mansion. It's not the Roman Colosseum.
Breathe. You might actually like the ballroom once it's done.
Alas, we have a President who is only concerned with his own wealth and grandiosity and is enabled by a party of synchophants.
The ballroom is designed in incredibly bad taste, is hugely out of proportion to surrounding buildings, and has had architects and design professional say it ruins the image of the area with it's style disconnect. Add to the "donations" being the equivalent of bribes for government action to protect their wealth and companies success. Apologies if that all is something you enjoy.
Dear Lindsey, You are 100% correct! It was a complete outrage and insult to Americans of both parties. The east wing housed the offices of many First Ladies from Nancy Reagan to Michelle Obama.
If you and other Shoreliners care about history, I invite you to join us to try to save our local history at Fircrest with one of the historic Navy Barracks!
Historic buildings matter to teach us and our grandchildren about the remarkable efforts of Americans who endeavored to give service even when their lives were on the line!
Linsdsey, you are 100% right! Tearing down the East wing destroyed tha place where many First Ladies from Jacquie Kennedy to Nancy Reagan, to Michelle Obama worked hard to make a difference!
It’s an outrage to destroy this historic wing of the White House..
Trump had no right to take this drastic step. The Whitehouse belongs to the American people, not him!
About time we got a decent place for state dinners and other state functions without the need for tents. The facade will be returned once finished of course. Truman had the whole White House redone, LBJ had a a pool put in, Nixon put in a bowling alley, Obama had a basketball court put in. Stop this insane Trump Derangement Syndrome! If Biden or Kamala had done it you all would have practically had orgasms. Don’t like it: get yourself elected president, raise private funds, and remodel it into something else.
The east wing was refurbished during FDR. That's not that long ago. It became his wife's office and has been used on and off for reporters. It was actually built to hide a bunker for FDR during WW2. Since then it has become a haggard addition to the original building. Lincoln didn't sleep there. Nothing of importance happened there since the WH never came under attack. Most of this over dramatizing of the rebuild is from people who can't get over that Harris lost. I didn't vote for Trump or Harris. Let's keep this in proportion.
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