I am increasingly alarmed at the continued degrading of our quality of life and status as a nation. I hold the current administration to blame for many of these ills, as I know you do. I am heart-broke and sickened by the state of affairs, especially because of my family background. I am 2nd generation Greek/Italian. My grandparents came to the U.S as legal immigrants. They worked hard for the American dream. We fought hard, too. While not a “military family”, we served in WWI (grandfather), WWII (father and uncles), Vietnam (brother and me) and recently in Iraq and Afghanistan (my son). We served. We did our jobs and went back to our civilian lives. It wounds me to see the sacrifices that my family, and all the American families, have made, in service of this nation, being sacrificed at the altar of some harebrained ideology by this imperious president. It is counter to fundamental principles that built this nation.