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Show t i iva E ouwm.i u vj-uesr tditoriQf Opinion at our office ed at 538 South Stov Orem. Deadlines Monday 10:00a.m. All submissions are subject to edition i and The Orem-Geneva Times reserves tC publish or not to publish a submission COMMENTARY & 4 Opinion i A2 Thursday, April 3, 2003 C Editorial C Column 3 Resolve must continue in war efforts Century of 0 Jieroes in Orem Now that the United States and allies have gone into combat in Iraq, the time has come for Americans to unite and support our troops in harm's way, and their commander-in-chief, President George W. Bush. In the days, weeks, and months leading up to the decisive action taken by President Bush in seeking a regime change in Iraq and the forcible disarming of Saddam Hussein, there were many opportunities opportuni-ties for discussion, dissent and protest. Many citizens exercised First Amendment rights in voicing a variety vari-ety of opinions about war with Iraq. However, even Tom Daschle, CD-South CD-South Dakota), Senate minority leader, acknowledges now that the criticism he directed toward President Bush just before U.S. troops went into combat was "ill-timed." "ill-timed." In a political speech before the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, Daschle said Bush had put the lives of the troops in danger because the president had "failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war." Last week, Nicholas De Genova, an untenured assistant professor of anthropology and Latino studies at Columbia University, made the headlines head-lines with comments he made at an anti-war "teach-in" on campus at the school's library. The professor reportedly report-edly said, "I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus." The remark was a reference to an incident in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, when 18 American soldiers were killed, and bodies were dragged through the streets. It was reported that De Genova was cheered by a crowd of 3,000 when he said, "The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the United States military." The professor's remarks were outrageous out-rageous enough that others speaking after him at the rally tried to distance themselves from his comments. The university issued a statement that the professor was "speaking as an individual at a teach-in," "exercising his right to free speech," and something some-thing to the effect that his views did not represent those of the university. Then Monday morning, word came that Peter Arnett, a journalist in Baghdad, covering the war in Iraq for NBC, MSNBC, and National Geographic, had been fired in the wake of a hailstorm of criticism raised by an' impromptu interview Arnett held with Iraqi television. In this interview, Arnett said, "It is clear that within the United States there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war. So our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces ... help those who oppose the war ... The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan." Arnett also praised the Iraqi Information Ministry for "unfailing courtesy and cooperation." The public outrage produced by the statements cited above bespeaks a resolve held by a majority of the American people. Looking back, that resolve was alluded to by President Bush in his historic address to Congress and to the nation following the events of Sept. 11, 2001: "... But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to whom it happened. We will remember the moment the news where we were and what we came were doing." In the same speech, President Bush outlined the difficult road ahead in facing the threats posed by terrorists and terrorist sympathizers: "Our war on terror begins with al-Quaida, al-Quaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated." Another memorable aspect of that same address was the president's forthright, and in some ways, prescient pre-scient analysis of what America's response would have to be: "Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on television, and covert operations, secret even in success. We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. ter-rorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." The war in Iraq is part of the larger larg-er war on terrorism. There are those who disagree with President Bush's position. But it is certain that the nation is going to need a great depth of resolve in order to pursue the course of ridding the world of the threat of terrorism and tyranny. With American troops now in combat, the support of public-spirited citizens must be part of that resolve. The Orem-Geneva Times 538 South State Street Orem, UT 84058 published by The Daily Herald, A Pulitzer Newspaper Subscriptions & Delivery Service 375-5103 News & Advertising 225-1340 Fax .225-1341 Email oremtimesnetworld.com USPS 411-700. Published Thursdays by Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc., 538 South State Street, Orem, Utah 84058. 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Publisher Managing Editor News Editor Sports Editor Contributing Writers Pagination & Graphics Office Manager Office Printing Relations Advertising Sales Production & Press Times Publishing Staff Brent Sumner bsumnerheraldextra.com Reva Bowen Scarlett Barger Martin Harris Clvde E. Weeks Jr. Robert King Sydney Sumner Scott Sumner Sydney Sumner Sydney Sumner Brent Sumner Phil Patten Brent Sumner Steve Goodwin Josh Romero Robert Kint Oust de Clued t Mandling, SIomoha of Wcvc The Utah Valley Elder Quest of the Center for Lifelong Learning at Utah Valley State College is comprised of some 200 local senior citizens, many of whom recall and write down their memories and life experiences, such as the one presented here. JOYCE ZUFELT Of late, I have had a compulsion com-pulsion to write about this subject, and write and write. As if writing could bring me some understanding, where I find none; some solace, where I find none; and quiet my bad dreams and still my fears. Today I thought a lot about my brother-in-law, Howard. We grew up in the same neighborhood. As a young man still in high school, he went off to war World War II, as did many very young men, when our country went to war. He was in the famous 82nd Airborne Division a paratrooper. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge, endured a long, harsh winter, dug into a fox hole, wet, cold, hungry and scared. He marched down the Champs Elysees when France was liberated, had his knee all shot up and came home after the war. I was a young teen, impressed and romanticized by the uniform and the medals. Howard courted my older sister, Afton, and became my brother-in-law. He became a Deseret News photographer and distinguished dis-tinguished himself with awards and accolades for his professional achievements. He was active in community affairs, a councilman, active in his church and an accomplished accom-plished pianist and organist. When he and Afton bought a summer cabin, he was involved in the organization and management of the property owners' association. associa-tion. He raised a family and had grandchildren. He lived the American Dream. Now, as he has aged with his health declining, he is having nightmares, remorse and sadness from all those years of "toughing it out" and "stuffing it." The horror of war and just a kid, yet. He can see the face of the first life he took. He wonders if his victim was a husband, a father, how it changed a family. fam-ily. If only he could make amends. I thought, why doesn't he just put it in perspective? per-spective? It was war. Just like a romantic teen-ager, what do I know? In my journal on Memorial Day 2002, I wrote about Tom Brocaw or was it Peter Jennings? No matter. He did a special on this very subject, and Howard is not alone in his feelings. They were men in their 80s, sharing feelings and war stories with their families fami-lies for the very first time. They were overcome with guilt, remorse and sadness for the lives they had taken. And they had a reunion with some war veterans from the Japanese side, suffering the same way. They were young people, as scared of us as we were of them, as they embraced one another in brotherhood and openly wept. As I watch the Iraqi war on television today, I join Howard with nightmares about the horror of war. Will we, once more, one day embrace our enemies in love and brotherhood and sadness sad-ness and remorse for past aggressions? I have no answers. The Perils of the Post Offi CLYDE E. WEEKS, JR. Times Correspondent Part 13 With the Brentwood Mail Processing Facility in Washington, D.C. closed for over a year, as result of America's bioterrorist threat, every post office in America, including the Orem Post Office, has been put on notice that there can be danger attached to handling han-dling or opening a single piece of mail. Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C, anthrax-contaminated letters were placed in the mail streams of the United States, bringing business in the United States Congress to a standstill stand-still and placing untold numbers of American citizens citi-zens in harm's way. Opening innocent-looking pieces of mail, people in all stations of life were attacked by a new genre of terrorist: the mailer of powdered pow-dered anthrax, the deadly substance that has resulted result-ed in the deaths of at least five people and the serious infection of more than a dozen victims. Moreover, copycat perpetrators perpe-trators have exacerbated the deadly threats by placing plac-ing in the mails substances that mimicked the genuine anthrax disease and multiplied multi-plied the national panic. The U.S. Postal Service promptly responded to the terrorist threats by tightening tight-ening up security in every postal installation and taking tak-ing every prudent precaution. precau-tion. All postal employees have been placed on a continuous con-tinuous state of alert in the handling of both incoming and outgoing mail. In the vanguard of that effort to identify and mitigate miti-gate the very real perils of the post office, postmasters, postmas-ters, postal clerks and carriers, car-riers, postal inspectors and every other postal employee employ-ee is on the alert. Even seemingly routine things that happen in the post office or on a letter carrier's route may, somehow, impinge on the safety, uc memo ui postal pers, nel. But the danger often. ist acts Dy militants coc? tutes just another layer' concern that overlays ' lives of postal worW There are other perils postal work that per. the postal service, often call on the heroic duct of postal workers accomplish their missioj protecting and deliver; the mail. nmg teud between di: and mail carriers maybe cliche of American life, t postal workers in Oremf to see the humor. They so that what many peoj regard as a joke is real; serious problem that ca: es injuries, wastes mor and lowers the efficiency everyone's mail delivery When Orem letter car er Doral Graff T attacked by a dog on JJ 2, 1986, while on his re the 800 block of So in Main St., the bite was1: second that Orem maik riers had suffered in ; many weeks. The pit bull left i owner's property, crosst the street to the hod where Graff was deliver: mail and attacked the w. carrier from behind. Wt a neighbor, who witness the incident, tried to cox to Graffs aid, the dogw:t.( after the neighbor, wno:3 to safety. Graff was treated for i bite at Orem Commim: Hospital and released. I dog's owner turned the d mal over to Orem anitf control officers. The pit b: was destroyed. The Orem Post Off; has five or six dog bite ill dents a year, but that ber does not include tf near misses or the time; carrier is threatened I- escapes by spraying 4 dog with animal repeUe:-Icy repeUe:-Icy streets and stf walks also are perl-thoroughfares perl-thoroughfares for le':' carriers, who must tra- v.otti a rlflilv ba.'4- tlll- ill WAX fc tl I TJr, nion urocir crav forms and drive P' deliverv vans. Next Week: 30 Year; in Four Post Offices ':;,Aut)- friend o to the t dooming '.' then cal :,!tedtffO jt oftne '.-jjthe si !. 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