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Show 2 THE SAMPLER Thursday, October 14, 1982 Gays OK? Wheres the justice? A personal opinion by SSG Phil Hale There are few times when I've get to replace him? Well, according to U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein you can have Sgt.. Perry Watkins, a gotten mad enough over something Ive read to warrant the blast the establishment that Im about Consider if. you"' will a cold ed ng. battle-zon- e winter night in a as with combat and, any unit, you have one shelter half, and you must find somebody else so you can have a tent. Back in the 60s youd worked this all out . . . you were going to pick the mythical PV2 Swarze, about 5'8 and 185 lbs. Hell have enough fat on him to warm both sides of the shelter. But wait . . . this is the lean-me- n fighting machine of the 80s and sub-arct- ic know someone who hates my grandfather because of what he djd to the American Indian, and even more ridiculous, he looks to me to do something about it! The list goes on ad infinitum. Some military dislike civilians and persuasion would force them- selves upon another ... I think you can still be barred for rape! Perhaps this would be an appropriate place to. inject a quote from Walter Mathau from themovie welfare of all his troops and eliminate to the best of his ability factors detrimental to the accomplishment of the mission. In this case clearly to any reasonable person, the good of the majority is best served by elimination of the minority from the company, just as those with psoriasis, heart trouble or overweight Homosexuality is a limiting fac- and detriment to morale that visa versa. Cripes, I dont like the First Monday In October" with a someone satisfying their prurient New York Yankees and the Dallas interests in a decontamination tor attitudinally and sociologicalslight modification: We have to . stick together on this . , theres shower on the front line would ly. it has a tendency to create Cowboys. doubt in those who dont share the never My idea? Thought youd only two million of us against all bring. heriask. Alright, be proud of your of her! The military have always been persuasion. Such doubts on the battlefield could be fataland the tage, celebrate it. But be careful. alas, Swarze was barred from Regardless of the new wave of almost meticulously discriminaWhen your pride extends out to reenlistment for being overweight liberal thinking, there are still tory about who they will let join service doesnt want to take the where it effects others then it is and put out years ago (or was it many people in this country who their ranks, a selectivity that until additional risk . . . why should find homosexual behavior morally now has been allowed through they? prejudice. Stand oji the street just yesterday?) Now who do you comer proclaiming your pride, but the on and while and court numerous objectionable challenges dont force all passersby to listen. I love golf, but I recognizse that everyone doesnt. So if I tell a golf story I don't expect everyone to be interested, just as I am interested by SP5 David L Pinnick from Mim. She knew I would have to share with nevei? doubted that someday the rest of the in sotae folks heritage and not in After a long bout with an illness, and related the guys in the platoon or I wouldnt get to keep world would wake up and rcognize my talents. others . . . does that make me Both she and Pope stood up for me on several complications, my grandmother Evelih Taylor them so she made enough for a company, plus a prejudiced? I don't think so. Most important . . . let's try to passed away in her sleep September 16, in a small box tucked away inside, with a dozen just occasions, when others, including my parents, sometimes draggedisagreed with my decisions. for me. . . unify instead of separate, try to get Missouri hospital. No one could have been prouder when my I was always treated as if I were the son But, I cannot truly grieve. for her passing, folks to understand, instead of deBarbara presented them with a wife I never because but she led had such a full and varied life. they had, always wanted, something manding that they understand. to tried live to because of hard their faith and Ill miss her but in a sense she will always be Christopher Taylor Pinnick, his midup Enough of that, on to other with dle name me. trust in me because of the special part she played having been taken from theirs. things. Dave Pinnick, long with the I never She remember all the picnics down by Sugar got to see him in person, but we'd PAO and Photo Lab staff, just got in my life. My Grandmother Taylor, or Mim, which Creek in the state park when Mim would pack a sent pictures and she thought he was the splitword that he gets out Oct. 29. He was our pet name for her, was a very special picnic basket full of her most special goodies. ting image of me, taking her back in time a few and Barbara and Chris are' buildperson. In fact both she and my grandfather She would laugh and watch me skip rocks off years to when I was a young tyke msyelf. ing a home in Salt Lake City. who we nicknamed Pope, both influenced the the creek and even try a few herself, or wed Mim, how can I ever thank you for all the What about the major league in the sand. love, time and special insights that you gae to playoffs? Want to know how to get lives of my brothers, sister and I to a great play We went for walks, had long talks about the me? How can I repay you for all the joy of life a team to lose? Get me to root for degree, but especially mine. them.-Though they loved us all, it always seemed to things that kids find so interesting about the that you passed on to my mother and to me? If was sure that the World me that I was treated just a little bit extra" world and most adults find so boring, except for Ive done any good in this world, if Ive given to Series would feature the Angels others even a small part of the love, joy or conand the Braves. I was sorry to see Special, being the first grandchild and a grand- her. cern that you passed on to me, then just maybe son to boot. She gave me the gift of time and understandiGen Autry lose, but didn't regret Mim and Pope were like second parents to ng. With the advantage of her perspective from Ive begun to repay you for all that youve given one single put-oagainst Reggie me, giving me the time and extra attention that down the road of time, she taught me the joy of me. Jackson. I was a season-tickIn fact, my mother and all the good things own folks sometimes couldn't because of the living while she shared wonders of my holder in Baltimore the part of a my childhood. shes a family and earning a living done, aiid the contributions that each of us year he spent there. And would pressures raising I think of all the Thanksgiving dinners, when grandkids has made is just the beginning. couldnt root for the Braves, Ted placed upon them. So too will your Mim made me my own special dish of dressing she would bake me chocolate go forth always Turners chip team. the else liked and love in cookies and of because the onion and from spreading everyone celery joy simple things blueberry pies "scratch, Being an old American Leaguer, because she said that Ivoe made them taste bet- theirs and I didnt so she made me some without in life - how to enjoy sunsets, rainbows and I have to go with the Brewers. The chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven is ter (which I agree with totally). it, so I wouldnt go without. worst pun yet, remember when the me what a times she'd slip fresh baked Or the Even as the years passed and arthritis and trewell give, to others, as you taught us to Series between the Yankees and the Dogers was called the Subway mors from Parkinsons disease made it difficult cookie, or let me lick the spoon that she'd used appreciate them. Just as ripples spread from the pebbles we Series? Since St. Louis and Mil- for her to use her hands, she stiUUmanaged to .to mix frosting for a cake with. adultacross Sugar Creek, so too will your All childhood and make me cookies. skipped my through early V waukee are beer capitals, this one love of I be she would remember me, first hood, spread out, never truly passing away but quietly supportive is being called the Sudsway Series. my birthday away from ever even I thick others turned when and when was thin, home, growing, touching the lives of others, as attending Tjasic training at through us. touched I to me because of my mistakes. Mim you Fort Dix, N.J. was feeling lonely and homesick their backs is That our memorial to you, Mim.not a cold on my birthday until a large package of choco- never did and her love helped sustain me chiseled piece of marbel, but a living memorial, late chip cookies arrived in. time for mail call through those difficult times. She knew that I wanted to be a writer, and a legacy of love to pass on to others, forever . . . reasons why they have not. Skin pigmentations, facial features, etc. But what about blond hair versus black, or blue eyes versus brown? Let me get on with it. I am proud of my heritage, that of being a Protestant. I white, anglo-saxo- n am proud that the folks on my father's side came here before the Revolutionary War. I am proud I was born in Pennsylvania. But I don't insist that, when a group of Protestants get white, anglo-saxo- n to our heritage celebrate together that others should attend. If some Pennsylvanians get together, I don't insist that a day or week be proclaimed as National Pennsylvania Heritage Week. I fail to get the point, the reason for these celebrations". As a matter of fact, 1 think it serves the opposite for what it was intended. It further polarizes people, in many cases, it draws battle lines The idea isn't working. It is setting a memorial A living great-grandso- . group of people off from the others, be it Black, Hispanic, Indian or whomever. I see an arguI am not saying to ment there forget your heritage, celebrate it, be proud of if, but dont tell me that I have to celebrate it or study it or whatever. In Salt Lake City homosexual, because, according to the judge, homosexuality is not sufficient cause to bar him from . I do not contend that Watkins or any other person of any sexual to render. vague reason, or blacks who hate whites for just as vague a reason. I Right off the bat, I recognize that I am about to irritate some folks, and I recognize that I am not a student of the subject, but this is my gut feeling. Accept it as that, and . nothing else. Since America began it has been a melting pot, all nationalities, all religions and all colors. Some have melted, some have not. I know the bon-afid- e, self-declar- internal policy reviews. Many Amerians still hold these biaseS'toward the gay community and mine is not the place to say who is right and who is wrong, yet a commander must look out for the outside of the military one has the freedom to avoid the issue if you so desire, the military life is not and cannot be so flexible. Military life is just that ...a life, not just a job and not just an adventure, it is a way of life where we are told when and where to eat, drink, sleep and play . . . and yes, when and. where we can exercise our own sexual preference. Men in the military forfeit; 99 percent of their privacy if they hre single, 100 percent in time of war and we can little afford the uproar . ... . recently they celebrated Greek Heritage Wek. It was the Greeks, and they invited others. I went because I was interested. I did not go ut et . because someone was telling me that I should. Do you want to see the ethnic groups closer together? Then celebrate National American Heritage Week, National I Am A Human Week. Dont force separation. I am not living in Eutopia, I know that. There will always be a white who hates blacks for some All-Americ- great-grandchildr- an en : Note of Thanks To the fine people of Dugway, I wish to express my deepest gratis . and affection. I am so grateful to friends and officials of DG who gavte me such unfaltering support . Corridors and m icrocosms at the death of my husband and their help through the many prob-tud- e lems that followed his death. May God bless and keep all of you. Mrs. Robert Gilbreath havent attended a football game since my echoed my thoughts. Better than most high A Star Spangled Banner clear and pure. locked schoolhands, he said. college days. But here I am in mid-lifMarvelous. . Life is a series of doors and corridors. into going to a high school football game beLooking into the setting sun, I saw clean air. cause my seventh grade daughter is playing in As we stood to attention for the National serene mountains, caring parents, beautifully the band. Anthem a corridor ended and I passed through a vigorous youth. Her parents just had to hear Rocky and door. A smallband. Hie Star Spangled Banner. Our little girl, her friends, children of our A small community. As we listened to "Rocky my husband friends, gave us a stop in time. A microcosm of America. Terrific. I e, M.K. Skalicky The Sampler i GO WHERE THE DEER GOI . ON GIBSON TIRES!! Features. . . Armstrong TIRES! 1 color of national origin of the DR1NG 1 1 725 No. Main - I .a V'f? ' 4 - ... .v . r, '& A' (UJo! Yry We Have: ASK US ABOUT DETAILS AND PRIZES QKHanSTBKlSBCa'S (t.i-7rHi,.l- .. 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