I write in rebuttal to Lawrence Everett’s letter (“A past not remembered may be repeated,” March 23).

Those who ignore history, as Mr. Everett wrote in his letter, are doomed to repeat it. This I accept as fact.

His history is good; had his friend, the Panzer commander, told him about Czechoslovakia in 1938? Does Mr. Everett remember what happened when the western powers let fledgling democracy be gobbled up by a facist regime?

Does he know that most historians agree with Winston Churchill when he said that honor was traded for peace, achieving neither?

Rudolph Ziehm, Sabattus

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