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Show Thursday, May 6, 2004 Times Newspaper T I M E 5 Submit a Guest Editorial or Opinion at our office, located locat-ed at 538 South State in Orem. Deadlines are Monday 10:00 a.m. Al Submissions are subject to editing for length, and The Orem-Geneva Times reserves the right to publish or not to publish a submission. ( EditoriaP) -rV1 5 s' Page A2 ajMHEMWr & Opinibri Utah County should not be in an uproar! Dear Editor: Frank Pignanelli and LaVarr Webb are somewhat some-what wrong with some of their statements about Chris Cannon. They can speak for themselves but not for all of Utah County. If any malicious blemishes have been but on "Happy Valley," it has been by those that make us all sound like White Supremacist. Since when does God believe in borders? bor-ders? Have we forgotten we are all His children and pride is not going to get use to heaven. To what voice are we listen ing to? Where much is given much is expected. I believe too many including includ-ing Rep. Matt Throckmorton and his anti-Immigration buddies who lobbied for state restrictions on our brothers broth-ers and sisters form south of the border. They think like some spoil child, mel me! me! selfl self! self! Beware some of these people running for congressman con-gressman and eovernor sound a bit strange and dangerous. Are they too much for an all white society and believe God and Government don t eo together. Think about it. Mavbe they should go see Me Gibson s movie. Do thev understand sins of omission omis-sion or is a little sin here and a little sin there is okay with them and God? If Throckmorton can do that, can you imagine what he will do as a con gressman. Give me a break, I believe they prob ably believe that their principles and values are better than Chris Cannon's. What a mistake we can make not believ' ing in Chris Cannon. We believe in him before, why quit now? He has been a superb congressman for our great state of Utah and support our beloved President Bush for the God fearing man that he is. Let's continue to trust him I promise you he is aware of how we feel and he won't let us down. I do agree with Mr. Pignanelli that things are becoming bizarre that are entering Utah County and may I add also all of America. As for Mr. Webb if any body is stretching things it is him. I believe Chris Cannon is a great com municator because he has not stop communicating with a higher power that his Opponents, and as for having enough money that's something he does not have to worry about, there are some of us that truly believe in him and we are here for him. As for those that are running the Republican gubernatorial race that are lovers of people that Utah can continue to be even a greater state by having one of them as governors, it is Jim Hansen, Gary Herbert, Fred Lampropoulos or Olene Walker. Not necessarily neces-sarily in that order. 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All letters must include the author's name (printed AND signed) and a telephone number. We reserve the right to edit letters tor clarity, punctuation, taste and lenath. Letters are welcome on any topic. Timpanogos Green Clyde, & -WeJtty,. Orem Mothers Day There is a day that comes but once a year: A Sunday, set aside for love and praise To those who mother children of their own, As well as loving surrogates who hear The call to nurture children all their days. For growing children and the children, grown, Depend on such a mother for her love On earth, as well as heaven up above. O Mother, take this day unto thy heart! O Mother, may we never draw apart! O Mother dear, we know how great thou art! How many accolades does she receive For all the sacrifices she employs? How many blessings may a mother claim In teaching children what they should believe? The hungry minds of little girls and boys Are always eager for the learning game! The mother who endows her tender crops, Will find that children's learning never stops! O Mother, hold the future in thy hands! O Mother, now, the planet understands! O Mother, how thy children bless the lands! The birthing mother sends out threads of silk, That spin her child a gossamer cocoon To form a shield against the raging world. The sweet empowerment of Mother's milk, Becomes a very real and useful boon: More valuable than any dew, impearled. The birthing mother gives her child a start That's blessed with every beating of her heart. O Mother, bless the moment of thy birth! O Mother, choose the pearls of greatest worth! O Mother, thou art treasure of the earth! The foster mother plays her crucial roles In nurturing and loving special ones Who, somehow, are deprived, along the way. With arms and hearts that open to the souls Of many foster daughters andor sons, They seek to serve the smallest castaway. The foster mother often is beguiled To make her own, another woman's child. O Mother, what a challenge thou hast known! O Mother, only thee, and thee, alone! O Mother, thou art still our cornerstone! The priceless surrogates who love the art Of mothering, are known by many names: As nurses, teachers, givers of child care, They, sometimes, substitute for Mother's heart. And when they lend their sacrificial aims To bless a child, they offer service, rare; For mothering reflects the holy Other: The One in heaven we know as our Mother. O Mother, teach us, once again, to pray! O Mother, please enjoy our sweet bouquet! O Mother, on this Orem Mothers Day! "We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake." -Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language DEADLINES Because of the increase of new stories & advertising SUBMITTED TO THE OREM-GENEVA TlMES, OUR DEADLINE FOR NEWS & ADVERTISING IS 10:00 A.M. MONDAY. I TEMS NEED to be brought to the Orem-Geneva Times at 533 South State, Orem. ENTR.TS MAY EE EDITED FOR LENGTH AND CONTENT. I? you have any questions please call our office at :--:;4r.: -.225-1340- - mmmmmmmmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmwF J X (i Heath Henry Heath Henry graduated gradu-ated from Orem High School, worked for a few years, then joined the army. He's now with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He spent several months in Iraq, housed in the division headquarters, in one of Saddam Hussein's damaged palaces. He was the personal driver (in a Humvee) for the sergeant ser-geant major and colonel, and he also guarded Iraqi nationals nation-als who worked for the U.S. Army personnel. He's married and has two children. When the chance came, he also flew with helicopter crews; this is a picture of Heath inside a UH-60 UH-60 Blackhawk. I lived in one of the buildings where Hussein's servants or visitors lived. The signal sig-nal battalion moved into the secure parts of the palace; the condemned con-demned parts were closed off (it had been hit in the early bombing bomb-ing by a JDAM joint direct attack munition bomb). They were pretty pret-ty nice buildings, with marble floors. After it was bombed and before we came in and cleared it, all the local nationals nation-als (the Iraqis) came in and stole everything all the light switches, the outlets, the plumbing, plumb-ing, etc. Basically, the U.S. military went in, bombed or blew up a bunch of stuff, or otherwise other-wise ruined it, then turned around and paid the nationals to fix it. We're trying to boost the economy. Evidently not all of the nationals working for us were trustworthy. trustwor-thy. On December 11, 2003, 1 went out on an escort with some electricians. elec-tricians. The guy who went out right after me was with an Iraqi in a little flatbed delivery truck. Someone had hidden four 155mm Howitzer artillery rounds inside the gas tank and wired them up. The driver detonated detonat-ed them right in front of the building where I lived. It blew up my Humvee and killed the driver and the army escort who was doing the same job I was. Some people were hurt pretty bad. The biggest piece of the truck left was a piece of the manifold about eight inches square, which went through the wall of a trailer. Body parts were everywhere, every-where, hundreds of meters away. The guy who was responsible had a lot of contacts on the post. He was on the base when it happened, but he had used the delivery truck to deliver deliv-er his products. We ended up putting him in DF (the detention facility). The motor pool sergeant got the worst of it a compound com-pound fracture of his ankle, a broken leg on the other side, and all kinds of shrapnel wounds; and he lost a part of his forearm about the size of my fist. Other guys got some shrapnel in them. One guy in the portable john lost his hearing. I was outside, and there was a big red ball; and then a big cloud of black smoke pushed up. The concussion concus-sion almost knocked me down. It was almost me. It made my knees buckle, and it was scary. The day of that bombing was probably my worst day there, the one thing that chaneed me and my way of thinking. I think half the Iraqis on the post were "dirty." They have all been suppressed for so long because of Hussein that they don't have any money. So five dollars a day for filling sandbags is a good day's pay. But you've got to think that in bringing them into the post, they could be mapping us out for mortars, or watching to see when helicopters come and go, or gathering gather-ing any kind of intel (intelligence) for the insurgents. The real dirty nationals will condemn the ones working for Americans, by shooting them or giving them lots of problems. I'm glad to be home. I haven't been back to regular work yet. Right now, I've got a year and five months to decide whether IH stay in the army. There are some great benefits: education, educa-tion, insurance, the GI Bill. My college will be paid for. Complete interviews will in time be available avail-able at the Orem library. If you would like to help ' with the project, phone Don Norton, 225-8050. |