Letters to the Editor 01-28-2005
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Neighborhood Safety - Pray For Iraq - America The Blind
Neighborhood Safety
Editor, Times-Union:When will it become a different story on the neighborhood safety with the fenced hunting that is going on in Kosciusko County?
There has been unsafe use of the bow and arrow on the property.
The property owner had stated that no hunter is alone when hunting. That is untrue. We have already had our house shot at. Have a hole to prove it. Is this safe hunting? No.
The property owner wants to put up a flagpole and run up a flag when hunters are around. With having elk there to hunt now, that means that the flag would be up 365 days a year.
We as neighbors to not feel that we should have to spend our time inside to be safe.
As other writers have suggested, write or e-mail our elected officials. We are sure that you would not want anything like this in your back (front) yard.
Richard and Pattylu Humke
Pierceton
via e-mail
Pray For Iraq
Editor, Times-Union:I am writing this as an urgent request to God's people to pray and pray hard especially over the next couple days for the Lord's mighty protection over the great country of Iraq. Sunday is the day they are holding their historical elections and ultimately, the day that freedom, both spiritual and political, can and will begin to reign.
I have been thinking all week of how absolutely cool it would be if no bombs fell in Iraq and not one person was killed throughout the entire weekend. To this end I have been praying.
I know someone might be thinking this is impossible even for God. Please read with me Matthew 19:26: "Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'" I know of a local woman whose son, while serving in Iraq, could very easily have had his life taken from him with the throw of one grenade. Without knowing that her son was in such danger on that very night, she was prompted by the Holy Spirit to pray for him. She did and sometime within the next month she learned that her son and all of the men traveling with him in his vehicle at the time she was praying were spared even after a grenade had been thrown at their truck, greatly destroying it.
Think about what God can do and did do when a praying mother prayed for her son without evening knowing the exact reason why! Imagine now what God will do in the current Iraq election situation when we do know in advance of the direct danger that our soldiers and Iraq's citizens are facing and we pray! What exactly will God do? He will move mightily as he already has! It would be such a testimony to the pessimistic and doubting media if this Sunday's Iraqi elections go off without a single bomb and not a single life taken! This can happen. We must pray!
Please pray with me. Thank you.
Tami Miller
Winona Lake
via e-mail
America The Blind
Editor, Times-Union:How can America be so blind? Why is the United States continually purchasing Middle Eastern oil if we have the technology to create an alternative fuel source? By creating a new source of fuel we would avoid the high prices of Middle Eastern oil. Furthermore we would be cutting out the majority of pollution and possibly prevent global warming from occurring so soon.
Approximately 15 percent of our fuel is oil from Saudi Arabia and could be a major factor in the trouble we have around the world. This Middle Eastern purchase is basically stabbing the United States in the back.
After the U.S. pays Saudi Arabia for the oil purchase they turn around and donate the majority of it to jihad terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaida and the Taliban. These groups then use the funding to support their terrorist attacks on Islamic countries, not to mention the numerous attacks on the U.S.
Why do we continually feed these countries money when in return we get oil and attacks that injure and kill innocent people? We are bringing everything on ourselves since the terrorist attacks led to this war that we are engaged in now. By boycotting Middle Eastern oil we would have a much more peaceful country not to mention the many innocent lives we would save. I would like for everyone to ponder over this thought for a minute before foolishly using any more fuel.
Eden Shewman
Seventh grade
Tippecanoe Valley Middle School
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- Neighborhood Safety - Pray For Iraq - America The Blind
Neighborhood Safety
Editor, Times-Union:When will it become a different story on the neighborhood safety with the fenced hunting that is going on in Kosciusko County?
There has been unsafe use of the bow and arrow on the property.
The property owner had stated that no hunter is alone when hunting. That is untrue. We have already had our house shot at. Have a hole to prove it. Is this safe hunting? No.
The property owner wants to put up a flagpole and run up a flag when hunters are around. With having elk there to hunt now, that means that the flag would be up 365 days a year.
We as neighbors to not feel that we should have to spend our time inside to be safe.
As other writers have suggested, write or e-mail our elected officials. We are sure that you would not want anything like this in your back (front) yard.
Richard and Pattylu Humke
Pierceton
via e-mail
Pray For Iraq
Editor, Times-Union:I am writing this as an urgent request to God's people to pray and pray hard especially over the next couple days for the Lord's mighty protection over the great country of Iraq. Sunday is the day they are holding their historical elections and ultimately, the day that freedom, both spiritual and political, can and will begin to reign.
I have been thinking all week of how absolutely cool it would be if no bombs fell in Iraq and not one person was killed throughout the entire weekend. To this end I have been praying.
I know someone might be thinking this is impossible even for God. Please read with me Matthew 19:26: "Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'" I know of a local woman whose son, while serving in Iraq, could very easily have had his life taken from him with the throw of one grenade. Without knowing that her son was in such danger on that very night, she was prompted by the Holy Spirit to pray for him. She did and sometime within the next month she learned that her son and all of the men traveling with him in his vehicle at the time she was praying were spared even after a grenade had been thrown at their truck, greatly destroying it.
Think about what God can do and did do when a praying mother prayed for her son without evening knowing the exact reason why! Imagine now what God will do in the current Iraq election situation when we do know in advance of the direct danger that our soldiers and Iraq's citizens are facing and we pray! What exactly will God do? He will move mightily as he already has! It would be such a testimony to the pessimistic and doubting media if this Sunday's Iraqi elections go off without a single bomb and not a single life taken! This can happen. We must pray!
Please pray with me. Thank you.
Tami Miller
Winona Lake
via e-mail
America The Blind
Editor, Times-Union:How can America be so blind? Why is the United States continually purchasing Middle Eastern oil if we have the technology to create an alternative fuel source? By creating a new source of fuel we would avoid the high prices of Middle Eastern oil. Furthermore we would be cutting out the majority of pollution and possibly prevent global warming from occurring so soon.
Approximately 15 percent of our fuel is oil from Saudi Arabia and could be a major factor in the trouble we have around the world. This Middle Eastern purchase is basically stabbing the United States in the back.
After the U.S. pays Saudi Arabia for the oil purchase they turn around and donate the majority of it to jihad terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaida and the Taliban. These groups then use the funding to support their terrorist attacks on Islamic countries, not to mention the numerous attacks on the U.S.
Why do we continually feed these countries money when in return we get oil and attacks that injure and kill innocent people? We are bringing everything on ourselves since the terrorist attacks led to this war that we are engaged in now. By boycotting Middle Eastern oil we would have a much more peaceful country not to mention the many innocent lives we would save. I would like for everyone to ponder over this thought for a minute before foolishly using any more fuel.
Eden Shewman
Seventh grade
Tippecanoe Valley Middle School
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