Letters to the Editor 07-29-2004
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Good Riddance - Respect - Money Talks
Good Riddance
Editor, Times-Union:Responding to Blake Dirks (Times-Union 7-19). You have a lot of nerve! Comparing Dr. M.L. King, a nonviolent unifier who never ever bad-mouthed his country, his president or his government and was very proud of being an American - to a scum-bag, loudmouth, anti-American liberal like Michael Moore! That's disgusting! What were you thinking?
Would I be happy if Moore, Robbins, et al left the USA? You'd better believe it! My good-bye would be: "Good riddance - and the back of me hand to ye!"
I don't know what history book you read, but mine tells little of French "aid" during the Revolutionary War. Mostly keeping the British at sea - the token support was about like the Phillippine support for the coalition forces in Iraq - as of now - none. Granted Lafayette and Kosciuszko gave some aid in training, etc. - but could we have won the war without the French?
Not if we'd had "fighting men" like Moore, Robbins, et al.
But we would have won!
Bush-Cheney 2004!
Don Guard
Leesburg
Respect
Editor, Times-Union:When I was growing up, respect for all people was taught to me by my parents and grandparents. Manners that should be etched in everyone's mind are, in my opinion, the following:
1. Respect your elders.
2. Stand to the American flag at any venue: parades, national anthem, pledge of allegiance. With that, take off your hat out of respect. No talking. Your cell phone call can wait.
3. Take off your hat at church, funeral homes, etc.
4. Pull over for police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, volunteer firemen and EMTs. They all have a very important job to do. What if it were your house or your family member they were going to save?
5. Say "please" and "thank you."
6. Say "yes, ma'am" or "sir."
These are just some of the top important manners on my list that I see people and kids not doing every day and it really gets under my skin, but what makes my blood boil is: Always, out of respect, pull over for a funeral procession.
Last Thursday, my family and I were driving through Pierceton at roughly 1 p.m. My husband noticed a funeral procession and pulled over, so did many of the cars and trucks behind us, except for two. One was a car from the South Bend area and a garbage truck from Ameri-Waste. I cannot tell you how mad I was. My 6-year-old said, "What an idiot! Doesn't that truck know to pull over for a funeral?"
I see this happening all the time. No one's life or schedule is that important that you can't spare a couple of minutes to sit quietly on the side of the road and give respect to those family members who just lost a loved one. They'll never have another quiet minute with that person. So pull over until you see the last car with its headlights on go by. Sit at that stoplight or stop sign until everyone has gone through. Be mindful that one day that might be your family member.
As for business owners, teach this to your employees because your company name is written all over that vehicle for the whole world to read. Plus, Ameri-Waste, I'm sure that the garbage at Wilby's gas station could have waited.
To the family of the procession, I'm greatly sorry for your loss and please accept my apology for all the disrespect you might have incurred that day.
One more soap box statement: It blows my mind that Warsaw can build a $30-million football stadium, but can't keep three schools open. The right thing to do would have been for the athletic director to give a small sum of that money to save those schools so that the little boys over in Silver Lake wouldn't have to save their allowances anymore. It's a shame that little children are the only ones thinking of ways to save their schools and the adults who get paychecks from the school system aren't.
Patricia Shoemaker
North Manchester
Money Talks
Editor, Times-Union:The old saying, "He who pays the piper calls the tune" is still true. Career politicians vote the interests of those who finance their campaigns. Some United States senators owe their election to money from out of the state they represent. Money talks. It was better when prior to the 17th Amendment senators were chosen by the state legislators.
Richard Ellison
Warsaw
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- Good Riddance - Respect - Money Talks
Good Riddance
Editor, Times-Union:Responding to Blake Dirks (Times-Union 7-19). You have a lot of nerve! Comparing Dr. M.L. King, a nonviolent unifier who never ever bad-mouthed his country, his president or his government and was very proud of being an American - to a scum-bag, loudmouth, anti-American liberal like Michael Moore! That's disgusting! What were you thinking?
Would I be happy if Moore, Robbins, et al left the USA? You'd better believe it! My good-bye would be: "Good riddance - and the back of me hand to ye!"
I don't know what history book you read, but mine tells little of French "aid" during the Revolutionary War. Mostly keeping the British at sea - the token support was about like the Phillippine support for the coalition forces in Iraq - as of now - none. Granted Lafayette and Kosciuszko gave some aid in training, etc. - but could we have won the war without the French?
Not if we'd had "fighting men" like Moore, Robbins, et al.
But we would have won!
Bush-Cheney 2004!
Don Guard
Leesburg
Respect
Editor, Times-Union:When I was growing up, respect for all people was taught to me by my parents and grandparents. Manners that should be etched in everyone's mind are, in my opinion, the following:
1. Respect your elders.
2. Stand to the American flag at any venue: parades, national anthem, pledge of allegiance. With that, take off your hat out of respect. No talking. Your cell phone call can wait.
3. Take off your hat at church, funeral homes, etc.
4. Pull over for police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, volunteer firemen and EMTs. They all have a very important job to do. What if it were your house or your family member they were going to save?
5. Say "please" and "thank you."
6. Say "yes, ma'am" or "sir."
These are just some of the top important manners on my list that I see people and kids not doing every day and it really gets under my skin, but what makes my blood boil is: Always, out of respect, pull over for a funeral procession.
Last Thursday, my family and I were driving through Pierceton at roughly 1 p.m. My husband noticed a funeral procession and pulled over, so did many of the cars and trucks behind us, except for two. One was a car from the South Bend area and a garbage truck from Ameri-Waste. I cannot tell you how mad I was. My 6-year-old said, "What an idiot! Doesn't that truck know to pull over for a funeral?"
I see this happening all the time. No one's life or schedule is that important that you can't spare a couple of minutes to sit quietly on the side of the road and give respect to those family members who just lost a loved one. They'll never have another quiet minute with that person. So pull over until you see the last car with its headlights on go by. Sit at that stoplight or stop sign until everyone has gone through. Be mindful that one day that might be your family member.
As for business owners, teach this to your employees because your company name is written all over that vehicle for the whole world to read. Plus, Ameri-Waste, I'm sure that the garbage at Wilby's gas station could have waited.
To the family of the procession, I'm greatly sorry for your loss and please accept my apology for all the disrespect you might have incurred that day.
One more soap box statement: It blows my mind that Warsaw can build a $30-million football stadium, but can't keep three schools open. The right thing to do would have been for the athletic director to give a small sum of that money to save those schools so that the little boys over in Silver Lake wouldn't have to save their allowances anymore. It's a shame that little children are the only ones thinking of ways to save their schools and the adults who get paychecks from the school system aren't.
Patricia Shoemaker
North Manchester
Money Talks
Editor, Times-Union:The old saying, "He who pays the piper calls the tune" is still true. Career politicians vote the interests of those who finance their campaigns. Some United States senators owe their election to money from out of the state they represent. Money talks. It was better when prior to the 17th Amendment senators were chosen by the state legislators.
Richard Ellison
Warsaw
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