OK, not much makes me be really "serious", but after reading Ann Landers in
todays (Sunday) paper I had to let everyone know about this.
After reading this BS from this "Retired US Navy" person I hope that you
will feel the same as I do.
I take it to be an insult to our Country, our Servicemen and Service women,
and an insult to all patroitic Americans.
Please take the time to write Ann Landers and point out to her that if she
and Howard Cook both think that Viet Nam is such a wonderful place then they
need to go move there.
Viet Nam is STILL a communist country no matter how much relations between
our countries have warmed up in the past few years.
I myself think that this "Howard Cook" is nothing more than a shill, a
frontman for the freedom grabbers and anti-Constitution people that our
country is so filled with these days.
That's gun-grabbers in plain english.
The RIGHT to own firearms is a RIGHT that was guarenteed by the Founding
Fathers.
What's wrong with Ann and Howard? Did they ever stop to think what OTHER
RIGHTS we have as Americans that the Vietnamese don't have?
If Howard Cook and Ann Landers are so worried about the deaths in America
then perhaps they would both be writing about the (1997 numbers, last
numbers on record with the CDC)
of 1,186,039 legal abortions were reported to the CDC.
[url]http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4911a1.htm[/url]
In any case, please feel free to drop Ann Landers a note to let he know how
you feel about this, and demand an apology from her on behalf of TRUE
AMERICANS AND VETRANS all across America.
Here is where you can write to Ann Landers.
[url]http://www.creators.com/lifestyle/landers/write[/url]
And if any of you know this Howard Cook personaly please let me know. I just
want to find out what the hell this commie was doing in my Navy for 27
years.
>From the Sunday, March 11 Ann Landers:
Vietnamese society is a model of morality
Dear Ann:
In a column of yours that appeared a while back, you mentioned that you had
visited Vietnam in 1967 to cheer up our American soldiers who were in
hospitals over there.
That must have given them quite a boost to see someone from home.
I wish you could see Viet Nam now. My wife and I took our daughter there
recently, and it is truly a garden spot. I served in the US Navy for 27
years and worked in Viet Nam as a military aircraft mechanic. I left the
country in 1975.
I have a column you wrote several years back, deploring the 30,000 deaths by
guns in the US every year. In Viet Nam, civilians are not permitted to have
firearms.
Anyone who breaks this law gets three years in jail - which means one bowl
of rice a day. Period. I admit it's strict, but it is certainly effective.
The police in Viet Nam have a baton and a whistle. There is no litter
anywhere, and I mean NONE. These people are incredibly gentle and have the
highest moral standards. There is enormous family pride. Children there
behave beautifully because they do not want to embaress their parents.
Lovely, isn't it? We could learn a lot from the Vietnamese. I am - HOWARD F.
COOK IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.