Veterans overlooked, forgotten on D-Day

To the editor:

In the past weeks, we have been inundated by the media about the courage and bravery of Bruce Jenner coming out as a woman. It has been everywhere with their representatives telling us how much courage it took for him to tell his story to the public.

However, the courage and bravery of the men who landed on Normandy on June 6, 1944, was nowhere to be found in the June 6 edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. On June 6, I went to visit my Dad, Bert Katz, a World War II veteran, with a Purple Heart. He told me, 'nothing in The Gazette about D-Day: it's as if it never happened.”

What a sad commentary it is that the people who risked their lives and fought for our country to be free, so we able to stand up and declare what we believe, to freely worship as we wish, to freely talk about sexuality and anything else we believe in: these men and women feel forgotten, and 'it's as if it never happened.”

Our media is working hard at trying to shape and change our culture by what they report and what they don't talk about. I hope that The Gazette will let me publicly thank my Dad and all the veterans who have fought for our beloved country so that we can enjoy the freedoms that we have today. Thank you, Dad. We love and appreciate what you and others have done.

Toni Neta

Cedar Rapids