from Madelynn Adkison, Jameson
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Dear Editor:
Joe Snyder makes me CRAZY! Every Wednesday I load up on Maalox in anticipation of reading his column on Thursday. God Bless him, he is an outstanding citizen, who has led a good life and it is most likely his advancing years which are causing him all this pain, but for heavens’ sake, I wish he would realize the pain he could be causing others by his constant drum beat of fighting war in Iraq under “false pretenses.”
Approximately 500,000 war heroes lost in WWII when Germany didn’t attack us….false pretenses. Approximately 55,000 war heroes lost when Korea never attacked us….false pretenses. Approximately 60,000 war heroes lost in Vietnam when they didn’t attack us….false pretenses. Bosnia didn’t attack us either. So Joe thinks our soldiers are fighting and dying for “no good reason?” I say – don’t say it, and don’t even THINK it. Let me remind him of at least 300,000 HUMAN “reasons” piled in shallow graves…victims of rape, torture, chemical weapons, starvation, and mutilations too gruesome to print.
It baffles the mind to think that my 19-year-old nephew and hundreds of thousands more of our finest young men and women are crystal clear as to why they are putting their lives on the line, and some older and “wiser” folks don’t get it. Here’s a word for those folks – GRATITUDE. Start using it at night in prayer for these soldiers who train day in and day out to see to it that the fight stays “over there,” because as we are all too painfully aware after 9/11, the Islamic terrorists have only one job….to kill as many of us as they can. That’s it.
Joe writes about our fiscal situation getting “worse and worse.” The numbers are in, and they show that we have just experienced the fastest growing four economic quarters in the past 20 years. Bi-partisan economists are saying that this will soon trickle down to us, the regular folks. Hope springs eternal!
Finally, Joe writes about regretting taking the Lords’ name in vain. I am not guilty of that one, but have plenty of other regrets. Heck! I might even regret writing this letter to the editor, because I do truly wish Joe well. I’m just nauseous. Pass the Maalox.
Madelynn Adkison, Jameson