The year 2018 and the month of December gave us opportunities to feel gratitude, remembrance, reflection and resolve to practice compassion and kindness.

With President George H. W. Bush’s passing and tribute, we were provided with examples of the inner goodness inherent in each of us “to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world,” and to move forward toward a “thousand points of light” (“41st president’s standing rose after tenure,” Star-Advertiser, Dec. 1).

The tradition of the blackened canteen (“An honorable ceremony,” Star-Advertiser, Dec. 7), also gave light to that inner goodness that can bring healing to local and national divisiveness.

Also, may the request for readers to share examples of kindness, and articles about Heroes Next Door, continue, possibly as monthly articles, that we may regularly be encouraged to practice the spirits of kindness, compassion and goodness.

Sam Hashimoto

Mililani

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