I wonder if people like Dan Mason (Letters, Herald, Dec. 5) were shocked and angry when the Twin Towers of Sept. 11 were destroyed and 3,000 people died on “our” American soil. My guess is Mason was just as upset as the rest of us and was anxious to seek revenge on the perpetrators of the heinous invasion of our homeland.

I wonder if Mason ever had the thought that the Cheyenne, Arapaho and all the other Native American tribes might have had similar feelings as we did on Sept. 11. After all, their homeland was invaded, occupied, their food source (the buffalo) intentionally destroyed, and they were murdered by the people and government of the United States. Maybe they were very angry also.

We, the United States, sought our revenge by invading the wrong country and killing thousands of Iraqi families and occupying their homeland.

Absolutely, the murders of any family on anybody’s homeland is a horrible thing, but to ignore the genocide that the United States practiced at Sand Creek, and many other tribal villages and homelands is horribly wrong. To do so would be to practice a narrow-mindedness that can only exist in a bigoted, and racist mind.

Thanks to Gov. John Hickenlooper for formally apologizing for the Sand Creek Massacre.

Bob Kuhnert

Durango