Re: ” ‘We made a mistake’: Hawaii sends false missile alert,” Jan. 13 news story.
While at breakfast with a friend on Saturday, I received a text from my daughter in Hawaii showing the missile alert message appended with “We’re still not sure if this is real.” My heart stopped. As reported later, this was an error and there was no missile about to blow my daughter, her fiancé and our friends off the face of the Earth. Besides the “How did this error occur?” question everyone is asking, I have a few more. How did we get here? Has humanity really taken this big a step backward? Why did the state of Hawaii have to implement these measures in the first place? Blaming the employee for running the official protocol versus the test protocol is not the entire point, in spite of the chaos it caused. Thanks to increased and unhelpful rhetoric and tensions, I now fear for my daughter’s life in a way I never imagined.
Donna Hurley, Westminster
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