Bystanders Watched Hospital Slip Away
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Your story about the closing of Camarillo State Hospital should make us all ashamed (“Parents and Patients Face Turbulent Transition,” Jan. 19).
I, for one, have been sitting on the sidelines fully aware of another disaster about to happen. Leo Baeck--as close to a Jewish hero as the Holocaust produced--said, “Nothing is quite so devastating as silence.”
Here is such a flagrant example of how we are failing the least fortunate among us. It is a measure of our society that we have paid scant attention when we should be screaming outrage.
Again and again we are asking a mere handful to pay for our greed and insensitivity, but we are just barely becoming aware of the dire consequences and the unintended ones yet to come to all of us.
It’s high time we paid heed. Is there anybody listening?
FRED A. BENDER, North Hollywood
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