When I saw Bobby Frizzell’s letter recently — his latest — right when tension was high over the health care bill, I thought, Oh, dear, here we go again. And sure enough, he is talking about how the United States of America is headed for the “ash heap of history,” but as I continued to read I realized that Mr. Frizzell is really a very good writer.

His sentences are correct, his descriptions are colorful, his vocabulary well above the newspaper average of fifth grade. He just has the wrong information.

During World War II we were frequently reminded that to ...