Letter to the Editor
To the editor,
A friend of mine recently returned from Europe where his daughter is a U.S. diplomat in Lithuania. Informed by almost 50 years of Soviet occupation and the torture and killing of their leaders by Soviet security agencies like the NKVD and KGB, Lithuanian adults fully expect to be invaded by Russia.
He described the chilling effect of touring the KGB Museum in Vilnius, especially the room where those that entered were never heard from again.
He said his daughter’s personal mission was to get any adult Lithuanian woman to smile at her as she passed, instead of trudging along looking at the ground.
Since 2004 when Lithuania joined NATO, it has highly valued its relationship with the United States. So much so that Lithuanians created a memorial for the four U.S. service members killed there in a training exercise on March 25.
