Cannot negotiate with evil

Stray dogs

Age is such a wonderful thing, too bad I didn't have it when I was younger. I'm talking about experience and knowledge of course.

As young dog owners we'd let our dog out the backdoor by himself, knowing he wouldn't go too far and would always return shortly. Now I would never allow our dogs out without one of us beside them unless they were in their fence. I offer, too late, my apologies to those who had their yards messed or who were frightened by my loose dog. Dogs can be very territorial, and if a stray comes in our yard our dogs would bark frantically and try to run it off. Even now though Tibby is blind, he would make a gallant effort to protect us and his property. I would like to make a plea to all dog owners to please keep an eye on your dogs for their safety and ours. Our dog's blindness was caused by blastomycosis, a fungus caused by the spores in the soil in the
Midwest .

Marcia Stolt

Supports referendum

Another response to 9/11 editorial

Response to 9/11 editorial

Five years after 9/11 the media is still not showing pictures of the planes hitting the towers, nor the people jumping out of the windows. For fear of what? That we as a nation might actually be upset that almost 3,000 people died that day? We need to keep it fixed in our thoughts that they brought a fight to us. They brought death and destruction to us. They came here and killed our people, our civilians, our family members, our friends. We ought to be stirred up!! They brought it to us because they think they can win. They will not give up until they do win or until we defeat them. They do not want to talk to us, they want us to go away. Not just to go away from the middle east, but to go away all together. Or be converted . Remember the Journalists that were captured and then released just recently. One of the first things that they made sure to tell us is that they were converted to Islam under force before they were freed. It is important to the Islamists that we all know that. Convert or be killed is the message here.

This is a war that involves religious ideology to be sure. It is different than others in the past though. We live peaceably in the USA with the Islamic people and have for many years. The same cannot be said for Christians in Muslim nations. We are trying to help nations in the middle east be able to overcome the oppression of the Islamic fascists. It is my belief that a majority of the peoples in those countries want that help and appreciate the change. They have been oppressed for many years and are scared of their oppressors and afraid that we will leave a job undone. There are thousands of our people in foreign countries around the world today that are fighting for our way of life. They fight to keep us free here and to allow others to have the same opportunity. All their work would be in vain, all the lives that have been given to the freedom of this nation will be in vain if we allow these hate filled Islamists to gain one inch.

Five years ago I was confident that within a year or two there would have been more terrorist attacks on our soil. I am elated that I was wrong. Freedom wins. This is what we should concentrate on. We are still a free and sovereign nation. We still hold true that all men are created equal. We each have certain unalienable rights. These things should not be given away. They are worthy of a fight to the end. Diplomacy will not keep them in our grasp. As for me they will have to pry them out of my cold dead hand. Unless we all have that attitude then they have already won.

David Barth

Editor's reply: I did not say that we should abandon our military options. We need to be able to communicate to our enemy that negotiations are an option to avoid a military confrontation.

Educators, Teachers, and Taxes?

Albie Johnson class of 1948