Dear Editor, I understand and affirm that black lives matter. Some of my dearest friends are black people. I love them and they matter. There are many black people, who I do not know, but they matter just the same. Red people matter. Yellow people matter. Brown people matter. White people matter. Coalminers, butchers, factory workers, plumbers, bakers, carpenters, waiters, cooks, physicians, attorneys, politicians, ditch diggers, ministers, writers, journalists, actors, sports heroes, laboratory researchers, pharmaceutical companies, nurses, secretaries, schoolteachers, EMTs, veterans, and service men and women, representing us in our branches of service, matter.   Of course, the list goes on and…

Dear Editor, While attending college I was taught to think for myself. Communism and socialism were subjects of discussion. However, indoctrination into either was never the goal of those institutions of higher learning. Granted to this day there are students who will embrace socialistic and democratic ideals as well as conservative ones. I have to say I am in total agreement with the writer of the “Take Over America” letter, in the July 22 edition of The Standard; especially the part about the “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.” My fellow citizens, consider that…