It’s time for all Americans to treat others with civility

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After spending a recent day in Tokyo, I was refreshed to see how polite people can be for a very simple reason. It's not only the right thing to do; it also feels right to treat others with civility. The experience was a much-appreciated, yet, glaring departure from what we've become accustomed to here at home. While Americans are sharply divided about their political beliefs, an October poll found 77 percent of respondents agree that the country's political, economic and racial divisions are getting worse.

Things are not entirely hopeless, of course. As the co-founder of a nonprofit that works to improve the lives of military personnel and injured veterans, I've witnessed amazing care and compassion for others by so many people. People like Scott Wolak, then-owner of Hope Street Pharmacy in Stamford and current CEO of Connecticut Pharmacy Group, who not only sold supplies at cost for our care packages going to Iraq and Afghanistan but matched those purchases dollar for dollar.

It's time for all Americans to treat others with civility, not only because it's the right thing to do but because it also feels right.

To read my op-ed that appeared in the Hartford Courant in its entirety, please click here: https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-meek-civility-0 [login to see] 5-tos3ljjwmbec7nbuovqblzbf3q-story.html