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Show ee! ZEPHYR/ APRIL-MAY 2003 little hometown. Imagine if the anger and hatred "stirred up" between Americans & the Islamic community could be resolved as completely, especially BEFORE another nuclear altercation! In case you are unsure or uninformed, Islam is a deeply beautiful & absolutely peaceful culture, much like all religions if lived up to their own ideals. And really, don’t the long standing grudges, resentments, and hostilities held by so many for so many others in our own community seem awfully petty; even just ridiculous, by comparison???? If former combatants in a World War--and nuclear devastation --can resolve their EMDR WR OIE The WAR? Jim, Readers Respond differences, can’t you “forgive me” for moving to Moab, from California (its been LET GEORGE DO IT...OR THE TWINS "Date with the Lonesome Lady" reminded me of when I was in Germany at the age of eight or nine. Our family was part of the occupation force in post war Germany. We lived in a house owned by an older German couple who lived in the attic apartment. The year was 1953 or 1954; less than ten years after the end of World War II. We lived in Darmstadt, a city that had been targeted for whatever reason during the war. There were still sections of the city that were rubble. Live munitions could be found just about anywhere; leftovers from the bombing and shelling. I remember an evening that we traveled to a nearby village to have dinner with the son of the couple upstairs. It was a pleasant evening with a good German dinner, and we got to meet the brand new grandson. It would not have been an event that a almost twenty years!)? For me, the message is to realize what we all have in common--our humanity--and less about our differences. You and J and all of us who live here really have more in common than we have differences. Consider that first. It’s a long way down the list before we might begin to disagree again. In any case, more positive progress could be achieved by working together, than by bickering about the relatively unimportant stuff. Tom and all those Japanese who he met have set a standard for Peace in the world which I pray we all meet, before we drop the "big one’ on our own neighbors. Sincerely, Marc Horwitz Moab grade school kid would be too likely to remember except for the fact that the REMEMBERING JFK & 11/22/63 gentlleman we visited had been in the German Luftwaffe. My father had been in the U.S. Army in Germany during the war. If my father and this German pilot had had occasion to meet each other during the war, their job would have been to kill each other. But there we were, exchanging Dear Jim, pleasantries and sharing food only a few years after the war. If we little folk can get along so well so soon after a war and probably could have before the war, why the heck are we always going to war or at least thinking about it? Could it be that there are people in power who get us to kill each other? Are there always good reasons to go to war? Maybe. In fact, we are being told that there are good reasons to go to war with Iraq (and anyone else who decides to join in). And there may be good reasons for an Iraq attack. But those who are trying to push this new war on us don’t seem to me to have much to lose by going to war. Will President Bush be carrying an M-16 and assaultinga bunker outside some town in Iraq? Will Cheney be driving a tank and hoping the next land mine will take out the tank next to his instead of blowing his butt to bloody pieces? Not too likely. Will Bush and Cheney make any money from our involvement in a war? Possibly. For years, I said that those who want war should be the first to fight in that war. Bush should carry that M-16 and Cheney should drive a tank. But that wouldn’t work too well I finally realized. Those guys are old. At least Bush is in good physical condition, but imagine all those fat congress people who thought it would be a good idea to go to war. We’d lose for sure. We need young meat to send to battle. So it finally became clear to me. Don’t send war hungry leaders to do battle. Send their children or grand children. If George Bush really, I mean REALLY, believed that we needed to go to war with Iraq, he would send his daughters. They’re young, and | suppose in good health. I’m sure they could be trained to be good fighters. And the image of them wishing they were having cocktails over an M-60 machinegun in a muddy foxhole somehow pleases me. I read your article on JFK with great interest. I was 7 yrs. old and living in Fort Worth at the time. My parents were from New England and Irish Catholic so we were very much a Kennedy household. My Dad was an air traffic controller and through his connections we were able to be part of the group that greeted the President when he landed at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth the day before he was shot. 1 remember vividly watching him walk down the ramp of Air Force One and getting very excited as he walked by shaking hands with everyone. Even though I was only seven years old I liked the fact that he was funny and told jokes that I could understand. I went to a Catholic school and the next day in school it was all we were talking about. I was the only one in our school to have actually seen him when he was in Fort Worth and it was a story I repeated many times that day. We were within the alleged bombing range of Cuba so emergency drills were a daily routine and we had just completed one when, over the loudspeaker, it was announced that President Kennedy had been shot. Within minutes the school buses pulled up and we were let out of school early. 1 walked in the door of my house to see both my parents weeping in front of the television. I’m not sure what was more powerful that day, the death of the President or seeing my parents crying. It is an image deeply etched in my memory and I knew that I was a part of history that day. When the opportunity came for my ten year old son to see Bill Clinton while he was President, I jumped on it and we waited in the rain for three hours culminating with the President exchanging sidesways-fives with him while he was on my shoulders. Fortunately, Clinton didn’t get shot the next day so his memory of it will be different from my memory of seeimg JFK. There, that’s my JFK story. Thank you, Dave Jette Castle Valley IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE... Bill Foreman Moab Dear Jim It was only yesterday when I picked up the latest Canyon Country Zephyr that | LESSONS FROM ’THE LONESOME LADY’ Jum, I am deeply moved by Lt. Tom Cartwright’s story of wartime experience and reconciliation with the “enemy,” partly because my father lived much the same experience (as a submariner, he entered Tokyo Harbor in 1945), but mostly because of the message of remorse & reconciliation; to me, an almost unfathomable degree of reconciliation. Ironically, this is a message most poignant in today’s world and even in our own remembered Lynn’s Paradise Cafe mentioned in a broadcast story about a month ago. Trouble is, | can’t remember if it was on television or National Public Radio (which I listen to almost exclusively). The point is: I knew about Lynn’s Paradise Cafe because I read the Zephyr and IJ look at the pictures (ads). That’s not something you'll hear many Playboy "readers" say... Thanks for contributing to that small pile of nuggets that makes Utah bearable! 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