By Staff
Ziemba columns always insightful
To the editor:
We're in a period when many are protesting the war and wondering why we are doing this thing. They need to remember that it wouldn't have come to this had it not been for the 9/11/01 attack. We cannot allow ourselves to be sitting targets. We're dealing with people who don't respond to reasoning.
I saved and have now shared with others Craig Ziemba's article which appeared in the Feb. 2, 2003,
Opinions section of The Meridian Star, "Give war a chance." That and other things he's written can be read again at your Web site, meridianstar.com, under Archives. I look forward to reading his insightful, common sense articles on the topics that affect us in one way or another. He is military, so he has insight from a position that most of us do not. Besides that, he's obviously a very intelligent young man.
Thank you for continuing to publish his missives, which you frequently do. If he isn't being compensated for his journalistic efforts, I think he should be. In this writer's opinion, he's good. Thanks for sharing your insight, Craig.
Carolyn Starnes
Meridian
Another way to deal with troubled hearts
To the editor:
I was much impressed with the real sense of community and caring as many concerned citizens gathered together at Northeast High School to counsel with many upset teen-agers in the aftermath of the recent suicide. I have only been here in the Meridian area just less than a year and I have seen some of the very best of what Lauderdale County has to offer.
Counselors and clergy were poised to come to the aid of a number of troubled hearts and many young people found comfort and strength with the help of some unselfish people.
God bless you all.
I suggest that we enlist the aid of these same people in a more ongoing way by establishing a volunteer school chaplaincy corp. A student-initiated counseling program using volunteer clergy with counseling training would be a great asset to our community and may be able to diffuse some serious problems that could help prevent another occurrence like the one we have recently experienced.
Our prayers go out to the family who have lost this precious young man.
If you are interested in getting involved with a program like this, give me a call at 485-7708.
Chaplain Dennis Marks
Good News Jail &Prison Ministry of Lauderdale County
Meridian
The real' war is against Bush
To the editor:
Recent letters to the editor have lambasted the media for their "anti-American" coverage of the war. Actually, the national news media has covered the war in an outstanding manner in terms of attaining the final goal of the national liberal forces back home. It must be remembered that to this recently defeated and embittered national faction, with its liberal press corps strategically embedded among unsuspecting fighting men, the Iraqi War and the extent of its failure constitutes hopefully another successful battle in the "real" war; the war against President Bush.
Armond "Si" Simmons
Pell City, Ala.
Kaptur's criticism over the line
To the editor:
I'm outraged by Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's comparison of terrorist Osama bin Laden to our Founding Father, George Washington.
I agree with Paul Begala when he said on CNN's Crossfire, "Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. You were right to call her on it and I just I can't defend it. I never will the notion that anybody could compare this murderer to our Founding Fathers is insane."
Shame on you, Marcy Kaptur.
Ricky Nelson
Summit