Letters to the Editor 08-16-2002
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- In God We Trust - Stealing From Graves - Thanks To Warsaw PD - Solar Lights Stolen - Wagon Wheel - Smoking - Support For Tara
In God We Trust
Editor, Times-Union:In God We Trust. This was placed on our coins in 1864, put on our paper money in 1955 and in 1956 Congress passed a resolution declaring "In God We Trust" the national motto. This has survived many court decisions. To many Americans this motto is true. Another thing, we say "God Bless America." He has blessed America. We are the most prosperous nation in the world and have the best of everything.
I wonder at times if our true practicing motto is "In Sports and Entertainment We Trust." We pay professional athletes millions of dollars and fill the stadiums for them. One sports announcer for Monday night football is being paid $50 million per year for working part of the year one night a week. We the public pay for this by purchasing the product of the sponsor of the program. For those of us who really do not care for the sport, but want the product, we are paying through the nose the extra amount needed to pay the person megabucks. This truly is a form of taxation without representation.
The great Roman Empire fell apart for one reason, sports. Chariot races and gladiator fights where the elite spent most of their time. Nero even fiddled while Rome burned. We need to wake up on our priorities, or we could go down the same route. It is no wonder so many people in other countries hate us when they see how luxurious we are, and they are homeless and starving to death.
Fred R. Yohey
Warsaw
Stealing From Graves
Editor, Times-Union:So there are some low-down worthless scum out there that feels he has nothing better to do than go to the Oakwood Cemetery and steal off graves. How totally pathetic can one get? How do you sleep at night knowing you stole from a person's final resting place? What if it were your loved one's grave being stolen from? Do you know the meaning of love? I guess if you are low enough to steal from a grave, it wouldn't bother you to steal from your own family's grave.
There are many who like to put nice sentimental things on their loved ones' graves. And things aren't put there so lowlifes like yourselves can creep in there at night and steal them. Does it make you feel good about yourself knowing that you are hurting so many people? If you want something off my daughter's grave, just ask, I will be more than happy to give it to you, but please don't steal it. My daughter was a very giving person, she would want you to have what you want. I hope you are enjoying all of the things you have stolen, just know you will be caught, it's only a matter of time. And remember, God is watching you, and you will have to anwer to him. I will say an extra prayer for you, you definitely need it.
Rita Jackson
Pierceton
via e-mail
Thanks To Warsaw PD
Editor, Times-Union:Jewelry box and its contents: a few thousand dollars. Replacement of window and blinds: a few hundred dollars. Being able to sleep soundly at night in one's home because the suspect who broke into said home took said jewelry box and its contents, and destroyed said window (including glass, storm, screen and encasement) is behind bars in one's very own county jail: priceless.
On behalf of our family, we heartily wish to thank the Warsaw Police Department for their outstandingly professional, swift and intelligent pursuit and capture of the suspect.
Yes, Warsaw Police Department, by all counts you were "just doing your job," however, when your job has serious and positive effects upon even a small portion of people (our family of five, specifically speaking) - the whole of a community should feel obliged to let you know how much you all couant to us.
Fellow citizens of Warsaw, we implore you: The next time you see a member of the Warsaw Police force, please let that member know how grateful you are for that member's dedicated energies and continued vigilance to uphold the oath of protection and service to our city and all of its people.
Scott W. Bowman Family
Warsaw
via e-mail
Solar Lights Stolen
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is to the lowlife scum that took the solar lights off of my son's grave at Oakwood. How can you sleep at night? Just who do you think you are to go into a cemetery and bother anything! Have you ever heard of working and buying your own stuff instead of stealing from a grave? I guess the concept of working is something you are too stupid to understand. Bring back the lights and put them where they belong. I am still grieving for my son so! You have stepped on the wrong toes. You are scum and very mean and an uncaring person, how would you feel if someone took from the grave of your loved one? I filed a police report and I myself will be watching for you and if I catch you, you will get a lot of rest in the hospital. A grieving mother is crying harder now thanks to you. Please, people of Warsaw, a lot of you walk and jog at Oakwood, if you see anyone messing around, call the police. It is a very sad day in Warsaw when the dead can't rest in peace without some scum stealing from their grave.
Anna Matthews
Warsaw
via e-mail
Wagon Wheel
Editor, Times-Union:Re: "Warsaw's Best Kept Secret"
As members of the Director's Club of the Wagon Wheel Theatre, we are quite concerned about the apparent lack of support and attendance we have witnessed in the last year and a half or longer. It is a shame when a growing community such as Warsaw and its surrounding neighbors do not support a classic demonstration of talent and art that exists such as the theater.
The productions at the Wagon Wheel are as strong or even stronger than some of the productions coming out of large cities such as New York or Chicago. This can only be attributed to the direction of Roy Hine and his crew. The interpretation of the plays is super. Roy's choice of voices is of very high quality and the set designs are quite creative in keeping with the play. The casting of the various parts for each play is done in a way so as to magnify each actor's strengths.
Warsaw and surrounding communities supplied several actors for the play, "Titanic"; namely, from Warsaw were Shay Dixon, Skye Scott, Richard Wroughton, Michael Yocum and Tim Yocum. From North Manchester came Marie Weller and from Akron, Jim Saner. Each did a great job and yet the theater, on many showings, was about half full. One would have to assume that the crowds would have been larger had the many acquaintances of each actor supported them in attendance. The Warsaw school system has supplied two young apprentices. Charles Robison has appeared in several shows, and if you missed Heather Bonahoom last summer in "The Miracle Worker," you missed a great show.
The city of Warsaw supports a high school and total school system the size of a small college, not to mention other rather large school systems in the surrounding communities. Yet the Wagon Wheel Theatre is nearly half full a lot of the time. It was standing room only a few years ago. Something is wrong!
Even though we live in Fort Wayne which has the Civic Theater and the Embassy Theater programs, we do not understand why numbers show Fort Wayne supports the Wagon Wheel more than any other community. Subscriptions for next year are available now. We think it would be great for the people of Warsaw and surrounding communities to get busy, purchase subscriptions and make Fort Wayne the second largest supporter of this great form of entertainment.
G. Wm. Leonhard
Donna Leonhard
Fort Wayne
Smoking
Editor, Times-Union:Miss Kathleen Parker, whose column appears in the Times-Union, seems to estimate that -- well, she's the first columnist to my knowledge who practically "recommends" smoking marijuana and cigarettes, and suggests that they are little more than a harmless pastime.
Miss Parker (along with guru health specialist Dr. Tom Ferguson) agrees that "cigarette smoking has some good (?) things for people, which is why they smoke - that nicotine alters brain chemistry in ways that improve concentration, attention and performance; (cigarette) smoking also helps some people suppress anger, anxiety and cope with stress." To me, those are mighty fancy words, but the raw, naked truth is that in spite of Miss Parker and Dr. Ferguson's high praise for cigarette smoking, the cigarette habit can also lead to just one thing: a very grave and fatal situation known as lung cancer. On the other hand, Miss Parker and Mr. Ferguson seem to agree that if one smokes marijuana, it won't lead to something more serious. Oh, no? How many times have we heard of kids who, after getting hooked on marijuana, will, out of curiosity, try something more powerful, such as heroin, crack or ecstasy - perhaps Miss Parker and Dr. Ferguson believe that many kids get started on the more dangerous drugs by puffing on dried corn silks, or ground coffee beans from Maxwell House.
Now I, for one, am an individual who, I suppose, is just too "old-fashioned" and "narrow-minded" to believe that marijuana and cigarette smoking are no more than a frivolous pastime. As I was growing up, I often heard the much-repeated adage: "Each time you put a cigarette between your lips, you're driving another nail into your coffin." If I'd tell Miss Kathleen Parker that, she would probably respond with, "Oh, that's just an old wives' tale." Yes, an old wives' tale that has been told once too often.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Support For Tara
Editor, Times-Union:On behalf of our daughter, Tara Goble, we would like to say thank-you to the businesses, family, churches and friends for helping Tara surpass her goal of 100 cards. Now she is aiming for 200! She will have her fourth surgery on Aug. 15 at Parkview Hospital. She still has a long way to go, but with everybody praying for her, she'll be fine.
Bill, Rhonda and Tara Goble
Warsaw
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- In God We Trust - Stealing From Graves - Thanks To Warsaw PD - Solar Lights Stolen - Wagon Wheel - Smoking - Support For Tara
In God We Trust
Editor, Times-Union:In God We Trust. This was placed on our coins in 1864, put on our paper money in 1955 and in 1956 Congress passed a resolution declaring "In God We Trust" the national motto. This has survived many court decisions. To many Americans this motto is true. Another thing, we say "God Bless America." He has blessed America. We are the most prosperous nation in the world and have the best of everything.
I wonder at times if our true practicing motto is "In Sports and Entertainment We Trust." We pay professional athletes millions of dollars and fill the stadiums for them. One sports announcer for Monday night football is being paid $50 million per year for working part of the year one night a week. We the public pay for this by purchasing the product of the sponsor of the program. For those of us who really do not care for the sport, but want the product, we are paying through the nose the extra amount needed to pay the person megabucks. This truly is a form of taxation without representation.
The great Roman Empire fell apart for one reason, sports. Chariot races and gladiator fights where the elite spent most of their time. Nero even fiddled while Rome burned. We need to wake up on our priorities, or we could go down the same route. It is no wonder so many people in other countries hate us when they see how luxurious we are, and they are homeless and starving to death.
Fred R. Yohey
Warsaw
Stealing From Graves
Editor, Times-Union:So there are some low-down worthless scum out there that feels he has nothing better to do than go to the Oakwood Cemetery and steal off graves. How totally pathetic can one get? How do you sleep at night knowing you stole from a person's final resting place? What if it were your loved one's grave being stolen from? Do you know the meaning of love? I guess if you are low enough to steal from a grave, it wouldn't bother you to steal from your own family's grave.
There are many who like to put nice sentimental things on their loved ones' graves. And things aren't put there so lowlifes like yourselves can creep in there at night and steal them. Does it make you feel good about yourself knowing that you are hurting so many people? If you want something off my daughter's grave, just ask, I will be more than happy to give it to you, but please don't steal it. My daughter was a very giving person, she would want you to have what you want. I hope you are enjoying all of the things you have stolen, just know you will be caught, it's only a matter of time. And remember, God is watching you, and you will have to anwer to him. I will say an extra prayer for you, you definitely need it.
Rita Jackson
Pierceton
via e-mail
Thanks To Warsaw PD
Editor, Times-Union:Jewelry box and its contents: a few thousand dollars. Replacement of window and blinds: a few hundred dollars. Being able to sleep soundly at night in one's home because the suspect who broke into said home took said jewelry box and its contents, and destroyed said window (including glass, storm, screen and encasement) is behind bars in one's very own county jail: priceless.
On behalf of our family, we heartily wish to thank the Warsaw Police Department for their outstandingly professional, swift and intelligent pursuit and capture of the suspect.
Yes, Warsaw Police Department, by all counts you were "just doing your job," however, when your job has serious and positive effects upon even a small portion of people (our family of five, specifically speaking) - the whole of a community should feel obliged to let you know how much you all couant to us.
Fellow citizens of Warsaw, we implore you: The next time you see a member of the Warsaw Police force, please let that member know how grateful you are for that member's dedicated energies and continued vigilance to uphold the oath of protection and service to our city and all of its people.
Scott W. Bowman Family
Warsaw
via e-mail
Solar Lights Stolen
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is to the lowlife scum that took the solar lights off of my son's grave at Oakwood. How can you sleep at night? Just who do you think you are to go into a cemetery and bother anything! Have you ever heard of working and buying your own stuff instead of stealing from a grave? I guess the concept of working is something you are too stupid to understand. Bring back the lights and put them where they belong. I am still grieving for my son so! You have stepped on the wrong toes. You are scum and very mean and an uncaring person, how would you feel if someone took from the grave of your loved one? I filed a police report and I myself will be watching for you and if I catch you, you will get a lot of rest in the hospital. A grieving mother is crying harder now thanks to you. Please, people of Warsaw, a lot of you walk and jog at Oakwood, if you see anyone messing around, call the police. It is a very sad day in Warsaw when the dead can't rest in peace without some scum stealing from their grave.
Anna Matthews
Warsaw
via e-mail
Wagon Wheel
Editor, Times-Union:Re: "Warsaw's Best Kept Secret"
As members of the Director's Club of the Wagon Wheel Theatre, we are quite concerned about the apparent lack of support and attendance we have witnessed in the last year and a half or longer. It is a shame when a growing community such as Warsaw and its surrounding neighbors do not support a classic demonstration of talent and art that exists such as the theater.
The productions at the Wagon Wheel are as strong or even stronger than some of the productions coming out of large cities such as New York or Chicago. This can only be attributed to the direction of Roy Hine and his crew. The interpretation of the plays is super. Roy's choice of voices is of very high quality and the set designs are quite creative in keeping with the play. The casting of the various parts for each play is done in a way so as to magnify each actor's strengths.
Warsaw and surrounding communities supplied several actors for the play, "Titanic"; namely, from Warsaw were Shay Dixon, Skye Scott, Richard Wroughton, Michael Yocum and Tim Yocum. From North Manchester came Marie Weller and from Akron, Jim Saner. Each did a great job and yet the theater, on many showings, was about half full. One would have to assume that the crowds would have been larger had the many acquaintances of each actor supported them in attendance. The Warsaw school system has supplied two young apprentices. Charles Robison has appeared in several shows, and if you missed Heather Bonahoom last summer in "The Miracle Worker," you missed a great show.
The city of Warsaw supports a high school and total school system the size of a small college, not to mention other rather large school systems in the surrounding communities. Yet the Wagon Wheel Theatre is nearly half full a lot of the time. It was standing room only a few years ago. Something is wrong!
Even though we live in Fort Wayne which has the Civic Theater and the Embassy Theater programs, we do not understand why numbers show Fort Wayne supports the Wagon Wheel more than any other community. Subscriptions for next year are available now. We think it would be great for the people of Warsaw and surrounding communities to get busy, purchase subscriptions and make Fort Wayne the second largest supporter of this great form of entertainment.
G. Wm. Leonhard
Donna Leonhard
Fort Wayne
Smoking
Editor, Times-Union:Miss Kathleen Parker, whose column appears in the Times-Union, seems to estimate that -- well, she's the first columnist to my knowledge who practically "recommends" smoking marijuana and cigarettes, and suggests that they are little more than a harmless pastime.
Miss Parker (along with guru health specialist Dr. Tom Ferguson) agrees that "cigarette smoking has some good (?) things for people, which is why they smoke - that nicotine alters brain chemistry in ways that improve concentration, attention and performance; (cigarette) smoking also helps some people suppress anger, anxiety and cope with stress." To me, those are mighty fancy words, but the raw, naked truth is that in spite of Miss Parker and Dr. Ferguson's high praise for cigarette smoking, the cigarette habit can also lead to just one thing: a very grave and fatal situation known as lung cancer. On the other hand, Miss Parker and Mr. Ferguson seem to agree that if one smokes marijuana, it won't lead to something more serious. Oh, no? How many times have we heard of kids who, after getting hooked on marijuana, will, out of curiosity, try something more powerful, such as heroin, crack or ecstasy - perhaps Miss Parker and Dr. Ferguson believe that many kids get started on the more dangerous drugs by puffing on dried corn silks, or ground coffee beans from Maxwell House.
Now I, for one, am an individual who, I suppose, is just too "old-fashioned" and "narrow-minded" to believe that marijuana and cigarette smoking are no more than a frivolous pastime. As I was growing up, I often heard the much-repeated adage: "Each time you put a cigarette between your lips, you're driving another nail into your coffin." If I'd tell Miss Kathleen Parker that, she would probably respond with, "Oh, that's just an old wives' tale." Yes, an old wives' tale that has been told once too often.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Support For Tara
Editor, Times-Union:On behalf of our daughter, Tara Goble, we would like to say thank-you to the businesses, family, churches and friends for helping Tara surpass her goal of 100 cards. Now she is aiming for 200! She will have her fourth surgery on Aug. 15 at Parkview Hospital. She still has a long way to go, but with everybody praying for her, she'll be fine.
Bill, Rhonda and Tara Goble
Warsaw
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