Letters to the Editor 07-25-2002
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Freedom Or Security? - Tour De France - Thanks To Community - TIPS Program - Church And State - Heat And War
Freedom Or Security?
Editor, Times-Union:From the beginning of time there have been horrible, vicious criminal or terrorist acts performed, and there always will be. We will not be able to stop all of them, they will happen. We should do what we can to find them out before they happen. The cooperation between the various law agencies is probably the best that can be done and the most successful. Life is full of risk, always has been and always will be. I am not willing to give up any of the freedoms guaranteed to us under the Constitution of the United States for security. Freedom is worth more than security, ask those who do not have freedom. Those in jail have security.
Wallace W. Huffman
Warsaw
Tour De France
Editor, Times-Union:Thanks for the great coverage on the Tour de France! Lance is doing great again, and it's nice to see his prgoress each day in your sports section.
Carole Gilbert
via e-mail
Thanks To Community
Editor, Times-Union:To our family, friends, Warsaw community, church family and Parkview Hospital, we would like to say thank you for being a part of Tara's recovery. We thank God every day that she is still with us. She is doing better, but still has many more months of physical therapy on her arm.
We greatly appreciate the words of prayer and kindness that everyone has shown us.
And we would like to say that we feel deeply for the family of Catlyn. When her parents came to Parkview to see Tara, the strength that I felt from them was something everyone should have.
Bill, Rhonda, Amy and Tara Goble
Warsaw
TIPS Program
Editor, Times-Union:Gary, thanks for mentioning the TIPS program, funny thing is, the way we have so many backstabbing nosy snitching people around this town, Winona and local industry, bet they would be frothing at the mouth be an official snitch, the gov could probably recruit a good many just from this community.
Anyway on the post office not going along, they backpeddled ...
You ought to dig out the book "Gulag Archipelago," many things mentioned in that book that you swear is talking about this country right now, on how the government kept pushing the terrorist issue, yet kept going after its own people, then thinking of the TIPS program, you ought to read what Stalin did to his own state snitches, later on he didnt trust them and had them killed.
Sometimes the future can be seen in the past.
Scott Eddy
via e-mail
Church And State
Editor, Times-Union:This outrageous frenzy concerning separating church from state gives me a pain, and you know where. They have been squabbling over "The Pledge of Allegiance," and there is still the problem in Elkhart concerning "The Ten Comnmandments." Not too long ago, somebody put up a squawk about The Ten Commandments being displayed in front of City Hall in Elkhart. The Civil Liberties Union and certain others wanted The Ten Commandments plaque removed. Then, I read that The Ten Commandments could remain on display in front of City Hall if they were flanked by a group of historical documents; therefore, The Ten Commandments would be considered little more than a historical document. Well, I've got news for the law or the Civil Liberties Union, or whatever - The Ten Commandments constitute more than just a historical record. They are God's laws. They were written by God to be revered and obeyed. The Ten Commandments are what all humanity must abide by in order to lead a good, moral existence. So why can't the atheists and the agnostics leave The Ten Commandments plaque stand where it is, in front of Elkhart's City Hall, so that believers, whenever they walk or ride by, can gaze at them once in a while if they so wish, and if the atheists, the disbelievers don't like seeing them displayed on public property, whenever they pass by that "unconstitutional" exhibition of God's words, all they have to do is look the other way.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Heat And War
Editor, Times-Union:It's hot! Too hot! The summer of 1863 was hot, too. Men were fighting and dying all over this country. Many dropped out from heat exhaustion; many more died of heat stroke. But on the Fourth of July, this nation's 87th birthday, Lee was forced to withdraw back to Virginia and the city of Vicksburg, Miss., fell to Grant's forces. The one-two punch that doomed the Confederacy, disunion and slavery.
Ninety-seven years later Bruce Catton wrote, "Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned it. The Almighty had His own purposes."
Make no mistake friends, this nation is "Under God." He still allows Satan to torment us, but God is still in control.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
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- Freedom Or Security? - Tour De France - Thanks To Community - TIPS Program - Church And State - Heat And War
Freedom Or Security?
Editor, Times-Union:From the beginning of time there have been horrible, vicious criminal or terrorist acts performed, and there always will be. We will not be able to stop all of them, they will happen. We should do what we can to find them out before they happen. The cooperation between the various law agencies is probably the best that can be done and the most successful. Life is full of risk, always has been and always will be. I am not willing to give up any of the freedoms guaranteed to us under the Constitution of the United States for security. Freedom is worth more than security, ask those who do not have freedom. Those in jail have security.
Wallace W. Huffman
Warsaw
Tour De France
Editor, Times-Union:Thanks for the great coverage on the Tour de France! Lance is doing great again, and it's nice to see his prgoress each day in your sports section.
Carole Gilbert
via e-mail
Thanks To Community
Editor, Times-Union:To our family, friends, Warsaw community, church family and Parkview Hospital, we would like to say thank you for being a part of Tara's recovery. We thank God every day that she is still with us. She is doing better, but still has many more months of physical therapy on her arm.
We greatly appreciate the words of prayer and kindness that everyone has shown us.
And we would like to say that we feel deeply for the family of Catlyn. When her parents came to Parkview to see Tara, the strength that I felt from them was something everyone should have.
Bill, Rhonda, Amy and Tara Goble
Warsaw
TIPS Program
Editor, Times-Union:Gary, thanks for mentioning the TIPS program, funny thing is, the way we have so many backstabbing nosy snitching people around this town, Winona and local industry, bet they would be frothing at the mouth be an official snitch, the gov could probably recruit a good many just from this community.
Anyway on the post office not going along, they backpeddled ...
You ought to dig out the book "Gulag Archipelago," many things mentioned in that book that you swear is talking about this country right now, on how the government kept pushing the terrorist issue, yet kept going after its own people, then thinking of the TIPS program, you ought to read what Stalin did to his own state snitches, later on he didnt trust them and had them killed.
Sometimes the future can be seen in the past.
Scott Eddy
via e-mail
Church And State
Editor, Times-Union:This outrageous frenzy concerning separating church from state gives me a pain, and you know where. They have been squabbling over "The Pledge of Allegiance," and there is still the problem in Elkhart concerning "The Ten Comnmandments." Not too long ago, somebody put up a squawk about The Ten Commandments being displayed in front of City Hall in Elkhart. The Civil Liberties Union and certain others wanted The Ten Commandments plaque removed. Then, I read that The Ten Commandments could remain on display in front of City Hall if they were flanked by a group of historical documents; therefore, The Ten Commandments would be considered little more than a historical document. Well, I've got news for the law or the Civil Liberties Union, or whatever - The Ten Commandments constitute more than just a historical record. They are God's laws. They were written by God to be revered and obeyed. The Ten Commandments are what all humanity must abide by in order to lead a good, moral existence. So why can't the atheists and the agnostics leave The Ten Commandments plaque stand where it is, in front of Elkhart's City Hall, so that believers, whenever they walk or ride by, can gaze at them once in a while if they so wish, and if the atheists, the disbelievers don't like seeing them displayed on public property, whenever they pass by that "unconstitutional" exhibition of God's words, all they have to do is look the other way.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Heat And War
Editor, Times-Union:It's hot! Too hot! The summer of 1863 was hot, too. Men were fighting and dying all over this country. Many dropped out from heat exhaustion; many more died of heat stroke. But on the Fourth of July, this nation's 87th birthday, Lee was forced to withdraw back to Virginia and the city of Vicksburg, Miss., fell to Grant's forces. The one-two punch that doomed the Confederacy, disunion and slavery.
Ninety-seven years later Bruce Catton wrote, "Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned it. The Almighty had His own purposes."
Make no mistake friends, this nation is "Under God." He still allows Satan to torment us, but God is still in control.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
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