Show Letters to the Editor Military Dear The so called sponsored by the Utah National Guard makes vivid the appearance of certain trends in our culture and the clear and immediate dangers they invoke to a free GRANTED THAT a military force in this day and age is We should not overlook the basic viewpoint of military mind As columnist Robert a man whose love and devotion to American of freedom is recently pointed the military is necessarily a Emulating the professional militarist the civilian soldiers seem prone to take the most despotic aspects of free forced and moral of military life and attempt to foist them upon the civilian It is extremely doubtful that anything of value to American freedom can come from a school taught by In much harm might result Note that the professional soldier's education is definitely not noted for its richness in the areas of A soldier's state education might take any but when such a person masquerades before the public as an expert on national and international affairs due to his position in a part-time military then a generous amount of hypocrisy is A TWO-WEEK course at the National War College hardly qualifies a person to talk on any non-military problem concerned with the internal security of this nation especially when the conclusions reached pose dire consequences for the rest of the The members of the state militia do have the right to make their views but only as private As members of the militia during peacetime and of the Federal Armed Forces during wartime they have no right to attempt to mold the minds of the civilian population either through academies or through the screening of public school Only ruthless totalitarian regimes of the worst sort have resulted when the military mind has controlled public The weekend warriors would do well to spend less time in oratory and more time in We the hereby publicly protest the un-American be- havior of the state J. KAYE FAULKNER TOM McLEAN CONNIE FAULKNER DOUG STEWART PAUL READ DICK MEVER WILLIAM GILLIS DICKSON SMITH DIANE EDMINSTER |