To the editor:

Some holiday thoughts:

Let observant Christians celebrate their holy days and festivals: Christmas, Easter, etc. – wonderful choral music.

Let observant Muslims celebrate their holy days and festivals: Ramadan, Eid Al-Adhha, etc.

Let the observant Hindus celebrate their holy days and festivals: Diwali, Durga Puja – which you should experience in Calcutta (Kolkata) – etc.

Let observant Jews celebrate their holy days and festivals: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, etc.

Let observant Buddhists celebrate their holy days and festivals: Visakah Puja, Asalha Puja Day, etc.

Let observant Wiccans celebrate their holy days and festivals: Lammas Eve, August Eve, etc.

Let agnostics and atheists and all others celebrate their own special times in their own ways.

And let us all celebrate the New Year and the freedom of religion guaranteed to us by in the Founding Fathers of this nation in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution.

Howard J. Baumgartel,

Lawrence