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Send Scott Diehl...

11-15-01

To the editor:

Where can I send a donation that will go toward travel expenses for Scott Diehl? I want to help send him to Osama bin Laden or to Saddam Hussein, and then he can give these evildoers a great big group hug! The peaceniks of Berkeley couldn’t have compiled an op-ed piece any more off the mark than this particular writer did.

I have two words for Scott Diehl: 500 tons. That is the amount of human flesh that is rotting under the rubble at the World Trade Center. Those responsible for this horrific act must be brought to justice. A death sentence is appropriate. Justice should be severe and swift.

Maybe Scott missed the president’s speech to the United Nations last Saturday, or perhaps he missed the pep talk by the president to the nation the other night? If so, I will share with Scott the closing remarks of the commander in chief: "We have our marching orders. Let’s roll!"

Todd Beamer repeated the Lord’s Prayer with a telephone operator aboard the hijacked plane over the skies of Pennsylvania, then uttered these final words, "Let’s roll." Todd and several other brave patriots fought with the hijackers, which ultimately led to the destruction of the airplane and the loss of all souls on board. Hugs and wishful, loving thoughts did not persuade the hijackers to abort their evil mission. Action got results. Even with the knowledge that a death sentence awaited these brave souls, they took action. Their heroic deeds, executed in the final moments of their lives, saved untold other lives on the ground.

My fellow brother and sister comrades in arms, now in harm’s way, will provide the blood needed to water the tree of liberty, so that even the bleeding-heart liberals back home may continue to enjoy all of the comforts and benefits that a free society provides for its citizens, even the ones unwilling to make the sacrifices that are required to maintain our precious freedoms. For the record... freedom isn’t free.

Too bad Scott Diehl wasn’t with me yesterday in Phoenix, Ariz., as I watched the Veterans Day parade. He could have witnessed a B-17 Flying Fortress overhead. This World War II aircraft that flew down the parade route to start the parade was called upon to drop millions of pounds of explosives during the Second World War, in order to bring the Nazis and the Japanese to the peace table. Literally hundreds of these lumbering giants were blasted from the sky over Germany and Japan, along with their gallant aircrews.

Also attending the parade were three Congressional Medal of Honor recipients: ordinary men called upon to conduct extraordinary acts of bravery. More times than not this award is made posthumously.

Many veterans of other conflicts walked the parade route. Absent by the hundreds of thousands were their fallen comrades. Faraway places with names like Chosin, Corregidor, Bataan, Iwo Jima, Sicily, Normandy, Nijmegan, Da Nang, Grenada, Beirut, Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, etc., were represented by the aging and by the not-so-old survivors of bloody battles.

I wonder why it took the terrorist attacks on September the 11th, 2001, to show the many citizens of this nation that freedom isn’t free.

Perry Kent Harris

U.S. Army, ’82-’85, U.S. Air Force, ’86-’92


Love is the absolute, yet...

11-15-01

To the editor:

This is in response to the article titled "War on terrorism, only love" by Scott Diehl.

We of course all have our own opinions and we all like to express them, depending on the subject and how close to home that subject may hit us. Terrorism is one subject that I have experienced firsthand, along with my wife and two daughters.

 I too believe in God the almighty, and for me to maintain that belief I will fight for GOD and MY COUNTRY, as any true American should.

I provide this example to those individuals like Mr. Diehl:  If someone comes up and hits you in the face, and because of your "no war" belief you do nothing, he then hits you again, this time harder and then again harder and then again harder, will you stand and allow this to continue until you are dead????  If that is your desire, you go right ahead, and those you love may end up under some government like the Taliban.

Many of our military brethren fighting, so you may be free, are Christians (or of another faith) yet you crucify them. President Bush himself is devout in his religious faith, so condemning him is cowardly and uncalled for. (To point blame is weak, to save God’s children is strong.) 

Would these same words be written by Mr. Diehl if he were to attend the single and mass funerals for those who lost their lives on Sept. 11 and all the war veterans who fought for him and [me], in the past?? These are the kinds of letters that turn races against races, religions against religions and neighbors against neighbors.

Love is the absolute, yet to maintain that love, we have to fight for it.

I pray for you, sir.

George A. McKinney

Pharr, Texas 



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