May 15 03.qxd 12/7/2021 4:01 PM Page 2 THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 2 Volume VIII Issue III May 15, 2003 The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 745-2688 Fax: 745-0062 Cell: 791-4387 E-Mail: shannafrancis@att.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 745-2879 Fax: 745-2879 E-Mail: crwendell@att.net crwendell@msn.com Opinions expressed by advertisers, columnists or letters to the editor are not necessarily the opinions of the owners and staff of The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS. Guidelines for Letters to the Editor Letters should be 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and the address of the writer submitted. The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS will print local birth, wedding, obituary, anniversary and missionary farewell & homecoming and Eagle Scout announcements free of charge. 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Note: The contents of The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS are copyrighted. To protect this publication and its contributors from unlawful copying, written permission is required before any individual or company engages in the reproduction or distribution of its contents, by any means, without first obtaining written permission from the owners of this publication. Letters to the Editor Valley Residents Provide Homemade Cookies for Service Men and Women At the beginning of this war, the DOD activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). Its purpose is to augment military airlift during a time when the military is under great pressure to mobilize a great number of troops and supplies to some distant area. The CRAF is made up of civilian airliners and cargo carriers. The airline I work for used volunteers from their International categories. I am in that category currently and, as such, was eligible to volunteer for this flying. I believe all of us would have jumped at the opportunity to volunteer, given the chance. The last couple of months I have been fortunate to be able to carry troops on flights dedicated to that effort. In doing these, I have been able to spend a great deal of time with the men and women I have been carrying to Europe and the Middle East. Without exception, they are courteous, proud, and, mostly, very young. They are also uncertain of their future. Their orders all seem to have them in a country for at least a year, extendable to an additional 12 months. It is also obvious that while they are our country’s fighting men and women, they are first fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of someone back home. When, and if, they will get home is a concern clearly written on most of their faces, and is a part of each conversation I had with them. Although it is difficult to deliver them to an uncertain future, it is an honor for those of us able to be part of the operation to get them there, and soon, we hope, to return them. The inside of our planes are decorated with red, white, and blue, and large American flags that are hanging on bulkheads and walls. Flight Attendants shower them with motherly love, and the pilots, most of whom have a military background, treat them with mutual understanding, pride, and respect. But, as the ones to deliver them and the last non-military to be with them before they arrive, we all still feel a desire to do more for them. Upon return from one of these trips, I discussed this with my wife Cynthia. Before I flew the next trip a couple days later, she and some of the families near us had made some thirty-dozen cookies for the troops on the next flight. I carried a huge duffel full of cookies from our Valley to the east coast where I picked up my assigned airplane bound for staging locations within Europe, and the eventual delivery to the Middle East. Those homemade cookies were the last bit of “baseball, mom, and apple-pie” the soldiers would likely get before subsisting on prepackaged military rations for their foreseeable future. The cookies were received, I think, with unexpected joy and pleasure. I know that anyone we would have asked would have dropped whatever they were doing to help make cookies for the troops, for Cyn just called the first names that came to her and, with one exception, the response was unanimously, “when and how many?” I would like to thank Pat Fuller, Tersa Shaum, Gaye, Rachael, and Casey Hogge, Lance Quinn, Mindi Turner, Mary Jane Markle, Jamie Hawkes, Barbara Hanson, and April Storey for contributing something that couldn’t be bought with money. From what I saw on the airplane, I suspect your acts will not soon be forgotten. Lew Beck, Eden Inspirational Thought It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. -Author Unknown Deadline for material for the June 1 OVN issue is May 21. Editor’s View There are not too many things in life you can always depend on, but you can always rely on a warm reception and exceptional, efficient service at the Eden Post Office, especially when Jeannie Marsell is on duty! When there, as dependable as clockwork, you can be sure that you won’t be able to leave without a good-natured laugh and feeling better for having walked into the place. Anyone frequenting the local post office will have noticed that there’s a need for a dependable, permanent postmaster. Jeannie has been overlooked in the federal agency’s past search for a postmaster. I suggest that, as a community, we not let this happen again. Please contact Brent Norda at the U.S. Post Office’s Salt Lake office at 801-9742982, or write to him at 1760 West 2100 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84199-9992, and convey your perspective as to who you would like to see as Eden’s new Postmaster. The Torch is Passed Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebearers fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty . . . In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world; ask now what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own. --President John F. Kennedy Thank you to all who serve in the Armed Forces.