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Remember the fallen

EDITOR: For many, September 11, 2001, began like any other weekday. We made our way to work. Children attended school. We shopped, had coffee, and waited in line at a drive-thru. Those of us who weren’t in New York City heard the first reports on the radio or television. A friend or neighbor alerted us to a plane flying into one of the Twin Towers. We felt disbelief. An accident, perhaps, a miscalculation. Then, a second plane flew into the second tower. Our disbelief turned into uncertainty and concern. Those on the ground faced terror and obstacles they had never known. As a ...

Three big warnings

EDITOR: Thursday, July 15, the Press printed on its editorial page three interesting pieces for all of us to note: The first was an excellent letter by Gladstone’s Norman Haase who waxed eloquent about how members of his family in Germany were “caught” in the throes of the SS stormtroopers back prior to World War II. The closing of his letter says it all....”Young minds can be the easiest to control and it must be watched that anything of this sort doesn’t happen to our kids.” At first, Germans were likely naive about what Hitler was all about and he played to their ...

Response to letter

EDITOR: In response to Mr. Hager’s letter about living in fear and who’s behind it. Lets start with the virus. The right wing GOP which is the driving force behind their party has continually denied the science and have created a dangerous climate of doubt against the doctors and scientist who are working overtime because of their ignorance. They will promote phony cures over the vaccine which I feel is criminal considering they are there to help and protect the people. Tired catch phrases such as cancel culture, socialism, woke and to many silly phrases that are poorly researched ...

Facing consequences

EDITOR: During the first few weeks of my Army basic training, after a typically long, hard day, I was dog-tired. In a moment of poor judgment I failed to secure my weapon inside my sleeping bag with me, as instructed. Instead I placed it between the edge of my bag and my air mattress, for the sake of comfort Sometime during the night a drill sergeant reached into my two-man tent and relieved me of my weapon. I never twitched an eyelash. When morning came I knew what had happened, and what I had to do. Convinced of my own impending doom, I approached the sergeants tent to report my ...

Afghanistan withdrawal

EDITOR: “We’ll have U S forces out by 9/11.” Biden to Taliban, May. A Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is “highly unlikely.” Biden, July. “We planned for every contingency.” Biden, August. Let’s look at the plan. 1. Give the Taliban a date-certain for U.S. withdrawal, so they can plan their operations. 2. Pull out all the civilian contractors five weeks before the first final withdrawal (there will be a second final withdrawal). This is why Afghanistan was lost. The civilian contractors were there to keep the Afghani Air Force (AAF) aircraft flyable. Before ...

An imaginary country

EDITOR: Imagine a country hit hard by a pandemic. Now with three workable vaccines. Whose legal citizen did not know if they were coming or going, when all they wanted was to regain their footing. Legal citizens watched as their tax dollars went to pay for highly contagious spreading disappearing Southern border. Yet a credit card of monopoly money is needed for basic infrastructure. As long held moral an legal views were replaced by hate and fears and numbing influences. As life became COVID, racism or climate change as they are held accountable for the actions of their long dead ...