Letters to the Editor 04-02-2003
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Service To Country - Joint Meeting - God Bless America
Service To Country
Editor, Times-Union:I was privileged to have known David Fribley in high school and during college. It was of great comfort to have a friend and fellow Warsaw classmate when I was away from home. I just wanted to send my deepest condolences to his family and friends. What a beautiful, kind and thoughtful person David was. As I await the birth of my second daughter, I am learning what it means to struggle over worrying about the growing independence of a child and what it means to have to let them start to make their own decisions when you just want to keep them from any possible harm. It is hard to imagine seeing your son go off to war and what worry that would have caused. I am thankful to his parents, who clearly raised their son with incredible morals and values. I am just so honored to have known someone who cared so much for his friends, family and for his country. I am so thankful that he was willing to give his life to protect his country. It is because of people like David that we live in a country where we are free to make our own choices in life. The military is not what made David a great and loving person, but I am thankful he used his abilities to serve our country and that the military was something he felt he could be of an asset to. Hero does not begin to describe what David was, let alone an asset.
With deepest condolences,
Janae (Oler) Newton
Dallas, Texas
via e-mail
Joint Meeting
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to each town council member, town clerk, county council member, county commissioner and town administrator for attending the Kosciusko County Joint Town Councils' meeting. It proved to be a good venue for town councils to share some common subjects. Information was presented concerning the Kosciusko County Solid Waste District and the plan for tax billing in 2003.
One good thing may come from the difficult budgetary times each taxing unit in the county is experiencing. It may encourage us to redefine "good government" in the most cost-efficient manner possible. Being responsible for services in each community becomes a more difficult task as revenues are reduced.
Sue Ann Mitchell, Auditor
Kosciusko County
God Bless America
Editor, Times-Union:1936-2003
When I was a little girl we lived in a steel city on the Great Lakes. Sirens signaling a blackout were constant. Our neighbors on one side had two little girls a couple years older than I. On the other side our neighbors were a family of refugees from Croatia.
My folks were the kind who raised us to honor everyone and explained to us that not everyone in this world shares this opinion. Mom always baked things to share with neighbors. My sister, 11 years older, and my brother, eight years older, and I accepted the wise words of our folks.
One day I was playing with the two little girls. Their yard was sand - no grass - so we were building sand houses. Suddenly the girls threw sand in my eyes. My screams brought my mom running and my dad, being an ophthalmologist, knew what to do. Not only did my eyes, hurt, so did my feelings hurt. Result: Be nice to the girls, but don't play with them anymore.
I found our other neighbors from Croatia had children of all ages. They became my playmates. They loved music, dancing from their origins and teaching me, after I begged, some phrases in Croatian.
We performed plays in our garages and charged pennies for admission. Afterwards we shared our money and decided to go to the corner grocery store and buy bread, bologna and cheese, and with the permission of our parents, ate all we wanted - no veggies. We had a lot of fun and I learned a lot from these friendships. The phrases they taught me in Croatian: "How are you?" and "I am fine."
Oh yes, my dad was a World War I veteran; all my cousins World War II, including my brother who had his legs blown out from under him, thanks to Hitler's Nazis. One brother-in-law who was in the Royal Canadian Air Force was shot down after sinking a sub; luckily he survived. An other brother-in-law, a Lieutenant Colonel, served in the Pentagon. My three nephews represented the Army, Navy and Air Force during the Vietnam era. One made a career in the military and his daughter, a nurse, was just deployed March 3.
Never did I ever hear any of these guys complain about America or what their ordeals were.
You betcha I am proud to say "God Bless America" My fiance was in the Army as World War II was winding down. Thankfully, he came home with a bright future in college facing him. His dad's military career spanned 30 years. He is fondly remembered as Ralph "Sarge" Lichtenwalter and his son, my husband, is fondly known as "Coach."
So again I say, "God Bless America."
P.S. Suggested reading: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"; "The Rape of Kuwait" by Jean P. Sasson; "Why We Fight" by William Bennett; and Ephesians 3:20.
Suzie Rigdon Lichtenwalter
Warsaw
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- Service To Country - Joint Meeting - God Bless America
Service To Country
Editor, Times-Union:I was privileged to have known David Fribley in high school and during college. It was of great comfort to have a friend and fellow Warsaw classmate when I was away from home. I just wanted to send my deepest condolences to his family and friends. What a beautiful, kind and thoughtful person David was. As I await the birth of my second daughter, I am learning what it means to struggle over worrying about the growing independence of a child and what it means to have to let them start to make their own decisions when you just want to keep them from any possible harm. It is hard to imagine seeing your son go off to war and what worry that would have caused. I am thankful to his parents, who clearly raised their son with incredible morals and values. I am just so honored to have known someone who cared so much for his friends, family and for his country. I am so thankful that he was willing to give his life to protect his country. It is because of people like David that we live in a country where we are free to make our own choices in life. The military is not what made David a great and loving person, but I am thankful he used his abilities to serve our country and that the military was something he felt he could be of an asset to. Hero does not begin to describe what David was, let alone an asset.
With deepest condolences,
Janae (Oler) Newton
Dallas, Texas
via e-mail
Joint Meeting
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to each town council member, town clerk, county council member, county commissioner and town administrator for attending the Kosciusko County Joint Town Councils' meeting. It proved to be a good venue for town councils to share some common subjects. Information was presented concerning the Kosciusko County Solid Waste District and the plan for tax billing in 2003.
One good thing may come from the difficult budgetary times each taxing unit in the county is experiencing. It may encourage us to redefine "good government" in the most cost-efficient manner possible. Being responsible for services in each community becomes a more difficult task as revenues are reduced.
Sue Ann Mitchell, Auditor
Kosciusko County
God Bless America
Editor, Times-Union:1936-2003
When I was a little girl we lived in a steel city on the Great Lakes. Sirens signaling a blackout were constant. Our neighbors on one side had two little girls a couple years older than I. On the other side our neighbors were a family of refugees from Croatia.
My folks were the kind who raised us to honor everyone and explained to us that not everyone in this world shares this opinion. Mom always baked things to share with neighbors. My sister, 11 years older, and my brother, eight years older, and I accepted the wise words of our folks.
One day I was playing with the two little girls. Their yard was sand - no grass - so we were building sand houses. Suddenly the girls threw sand in my eyes. My screams brought my mom running and my dad, being an ophthalmologist, knew what to do. Not only did my eyes, hurt, so did my feelings hurt. Result: Be nice to the girls, but don't play with them anymore.
I found our other neighbors from Croatia had children of all ages. They became my playmates. They loved music, dancing from their origins and teaching me, after I begged, some phrases in Croatian.
We performed plays in our garages and charged pennies for admission. Afterwards we shared our money and decided to go to the corner grocery store and buy bread, bologna and cheese, and with the permission of our parents, ate all we wanted - no veggies. We had a lot of fun and I learned a lot from these friendships. The phrases they taught me in Croatian: "How are you?" and "I am fine."
Oh yes, my dad was a World War I veteran; all my cousins World War II, including my brother who had his legs blown out from under him, thanks to Hitler's Nazis. One brother-in-law who was in the Royal Canadian Air Force was shot down after sinking a sub; luckily he survived. An other brother-in-law, a Lieutenant Colonel, served in the Pentagon. My three nephews represented the Army, Navy and Air Force during the Vietnam era. One made a career in the military and his daughter, a nurse, was just deployed March 3.
Never did I ever hear any of these guys complain about America or what their ordeals were.
You betcha I am proud to say "God Bless America" My fiance was in the Army as World War II was winding down. Thankfully, he came home with a bright future in college facing him. His dad's military career spanned 30 years. He is fondly remembered as Ralph "Sarge" Lichtenwalter and his son, my husband, is fondly known as "Coach."
So again I say, "God Bless America."
P.S. Suggested reading: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"; "The Rape of Kuwait" by Jean P. Sasson; "Why We Fight" by William Bennett; and Ephesians 3:20.
Suzie Rigdon Lichtenwalter
Warsaw
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