Letters to the Editor 12-11-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Angel Tree - Max - Metzger
Angel Tree
Editor, Times-Union:I rang the Salvation Army bell this past Thursday at Kmart. I was dismayed to see the number of tags still hanging on the Angel Tree. I just wanted to offer a suggestion to people.
Take a name for each of your children, give them a dollar limit and let them shop for the children from the Angel Tree. It gives them a sense of giving. Our family has been doing this for several years now. It breaks my heart to see those names still hanging there this close to Christmas. Each of those tags represent children who may not have a Christmas this year. Please remember those less fortunate this holiday season.
Emily Cowan
Warsaw, via e-mail
Max
Editor, Times-Union:I can't stop thinking about Max. I can't stop thinking about the Boston family. And, I really can't stop thinking about you. You hurt a wonderful, beautiful family pet. You allowed him to die. You dumped him in a dumpster. I don't understand. What I do understand is you are a bully and a coward. If the above is not accurate, explain it correctly. There is a little girl who wants to know and understand what happened to her faithful friend, Max.
My hope is that you have a bit of decency left in you and you will step up and do the right thing. Perhaps guilt and remorse will get you. Maybe not. But, surely, the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department will.
Friends of Max
Marg and Steve Knouff
Warsaw, via e-mail
Metzger
Editor, Times-Union:Sigh! I see my old fellow San Diegan, Tom Metzger, is up to his old tricks back in my former county seat's newspaper. I believe in free speech, but you must have some obligation to the truth, not the repetition of urban legends.
The former head of the White Aryan Resistance repeated as fact a collection of canards which has been making its way around the Internet for years now. According to Metzger's letter, the Los Angeles Times reported a list of problems with illegal immigrants.
Actually, the Los Angeles Times did no such thing. One canard was that 67 percent (often listed as 62.5 percent) of all births in L. A. are illegals. Not so. It's true that the majority of births are Hispanic, much as the majority of citizens born in Kosciusko County are of northern European ancestry.
Many of the Hispanics throughout Southern California are descendants of Mexicans who were in Mexico until the United States started the so-called Mexican War in 1846. That's the war where we took Texas as well as California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming from our neighbor to the south.
In simple terms, they belong here. If anything we Anglo Saxons are the interlopers.
Except, perhaps, for Metzger who simply went back where he feels he belongs. Sadly, you gave him a venue to continue his hateful diatribes.
Keith Taylor
Chula Vista, Calif., via e-mail
formerly of Kosciusko County
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- Angel Tree - Max - Metzger
Angel Tree
Editor, Times-Union:I rang the Salvation Army bell this past Thursday at Kmart. I was dismayed to see the number of tags still hanging on the Angel Tree. I just wanted to offer a suggestion to people.
Take a name for each of your children, give them a dollar limit and let them shop for the children from the Angel Tree. It gives them a sense of giving. Our family has been doing this for several years now. It breaks my heart to see those names still hanging there this close to Christmas. Each of those tags represent children who may not have a Christmas this year. Please remember those less fortunate this holiday season.
Emily Cowan
Warsaw, via e-mail
Max
Editor, Times-Union:I can't stop thinking about Max. I can't stop thinking about the Boston family. And, I really can't stop thinking about you. You hurt a wonderful, beautiful family pet. You allowed him to die. You dumped him in a dumpster. I don't understand. What I do understand is you are a bully and a coward. If the above is not accurate, explain it correctly. There is a little girl who wants to know and understand what happened to her faithful friend, Max.
My hope is that you have a bit of decency left in you and you will step up and do the right thing. Perhaps guilt and remorse will get you. Maybe not. But, surely, the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department will.
Friends of Max
Marg and Steve Knouff
Warsaw, via e-mail
Metzger
Editor, Times-Union:Sigh! I see my old fellow San Diegan, Tom Metzger, is up to his old tricks back in my former county seat's newspaper. I believe in free speech, but you must have some obligation to the truth, not the repetition of urban legends.
The former head of the White Aryan Resistance repeated as fact a collection of canards which has been making its way around the Internet for years now. According to Metzger's letter, the Los Angeles Times reported a list of problems with illegal immigrants.
Actually, the Los Angeles Times did no such thing. One canard was that 67 percent (often listed as 62.5 percent) of all births in L. A. are illegals. Not so. It's true that the majority of births are Hispanic, much as the majority of citizens born in Kosciusko County are of northern European ancestry.
Many of the Hispanics throughout Southern California are descendants of Mexicans who were in Mexico until the United States started the so-called Mexican War in 1846. That's the war where we took Texas as well as California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming from our neighbor to the south.
In simple terms, they belong here. If anything we Anglo Saxons are the interlopers.
Except, perhaps, for Metzger who simply went back where he feels he belongs. Sadly, you gave him a venue to continue his hateful diatribes.
Keith Taylor
Chula Vista, Calif., via e-mail
formerly of Kosciusko County
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