Dear editor:

We are again honoring our military veterans as we should. The efforts and sacrifices they made in this century and the last century place them on an honor roll.We still remember the soldiers of the Civil War. Without their efforts and sacrifices, we need to ask how slavery could have ended in the United States.  To this honor roll some surprising names should be added. Try Pope Pius XII, Wilhelm Canaris, Ludwig Beck, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Other names could be 

added. Some were lawyers. Most were members of the German General Staff, who more than once tried to remove Adolf Hitler from power, both before and during World War II.

Pius XII skillfully tried to arrange cooperation from the US and Great Britain in achieving this worthwhile goal with an earlier end of World War II. Their project was dangerous, 

and in the end many paid with their lives at the hands of Hitler’s police state. Many lives and homes could have been saved had they been successful. Still, they tried.

Yours,

Leonidas H. Miller