The Editor, Sir:

This is in reply to Ed McCoy of Florida:

Perhaps you should play a wait-and-see role before you condemn this great country. We have been through much worse than this, and have somehow managed to survive and prosper.

There have always been cycles of good and bad. What we as Americans must do is never give up, which is what you seem to be doing. This is still the greatest country on Earth. Show some confidence and faith.

I am, etc.,

PAUL TAFFE

hptaffe@aol.com

Leesburg, Va

Via Go-Jamaica