Remember compassion

An image I will never forget came from a documentary showing a little Jewish girl of about 8 standing on a street holding a doll waiting to be taken to a concentration camp.

The hate-filled rhetoric of today, the pushing for political gain from the streets to the media does not leave much room for what is actually important to a society, and that is compassion, understanding and empathy.

Faith Myers and Dorrance Collins, Anchorage