Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in /home/stparch/public_html/headmid_temp_main.php on line 4394
Newspaper Archive of
Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
September 10, 2020     Shelton Mason County Journal
PAGE 6     (6 of 40 available)        PREVIOUS     NEXT      Jumbo Image    Save To Scrapbook    Set Notifiers    PDF    JPG
 
PAGE 6     (6 of 40 available)        PREVIOUS     NEXT      Jumbo Image    Save To Scrapbook    Set Notifiers    PDF    JPG
September 10, 2020
 
Newspaper Archive of Shelton Mason County Journal produced by SmallTownPapers, Inc.
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information
Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader




Page A-6 — Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 LETTERS, continued from page A—5 Letter-writer extends a hand Editor, the’Journal, Well Robert Graham, thank you for your bio, and as I always do, thank you for your service to your country. I now understand where your hate really comes from. There were six brothers in my Navy dad’s family, all raised by Blue Dog Democrats. Four of the six of us did military service. Two of my brothers, like you did tours in Vietnam. One in the Navy and the other, who was my bunkmate for the first 17 years of our lives, was a crew chief in the air cav. He might have been one of yours, Robert. In that whole war, Robert, did you ever ask any of your door gunners if they were Democrats or Republicans? Doubt it. I always picked them up at the airport. I know what it is like to walk through the same protesters you did. I can understand where your hate for these liberals, as you call us on a nice day, comes from. We would surround them as soon as they got off the plane and escort them in a group out of the airport. It took us as a family a while to get over that kind of behavior our- selves, Robert. You on. the other hand did just the opposite. You came out and immersed yourself right in the middle of where far-left liberal think- ing comes from. A college campus. You complained about what you had to put up with in your second career being around all those liberals. Well, that half of your career, Robert, is on you. You chose to be a college professor and all that comes with it. You could have done anything different you wanted. It is pretty obvious that you are not over the' hate you must have felt at the time, Robert. Now with a like-thinking person in the White House whose only . purpose in life seems to revolve around hate, yours, like your presidents, has exploded into hate of the whole demo- f cratic process. Whether you like it or not, Robert, thatis theprocess that allows that kind of behavior. I believe you might even know the writer that wrote the letter about hate begetting hate. Please find something good to im- merse yourself in in your old age, Robert. That’s what I did. As a mat- ter of fact, Robert, Google up a group called Calm Waters. It is a group of correction officers in a level 4/5 facility with 5 being supermax. Me anda late friend started the group 10 years ago. We bring 20 Wounded Warriors out to the little community of Sekiu and put on a two-day fishing derby for them. Look us up Robert, as of this moment you have an open invitation to join us at your convenience. There are a lot of Trumpers in our group, but no haters. A Blue Dog Democrat holding out an olive branch today. I remain Bert Mullen. Bert Mullen Shelton Save our country Editor, the Journal, Sirs — as a-former LCDR naval aviator and an American, I have been appalled by many aspects of the cur- rent administration. The lying, the re- cord number of convictions, the sheer banality of the criminal behavior and attempts to disenfranchise American citizens not even to speak of the behavior and language of the president it is embarrassing and shameful. I worked and lived overseas nearly 20 years. America used to be a “shin— ing city on the hill ...” and it has been reduced to an international laughing— stock. And now veterans and our dead war heroes are called “losers” and “suckers.” Vets for Biden — save our country from this disgrace. Dana Partridge Shelton The mob. Editor, the Journal, e A small group of individuals are spreading lies and misinformation to try to assassinate the character of Commissioner Randy Neatherlin. These tactics seem to be nothing new in politics today. The mob does not care about the honest man. they are try- ing to destroy only to place into power the person of their choosing to follow their directions. The mob does not care about all this man has done for Mason County and all citizens of Mason Coun- ty. The mob concocted a false federal lawsuit for nothing more than to .hand it over to the newspapers to attempt to give the commissioner a “black eye” in the press before the primary election. The mob intends to serve this federal lawsuit before the general election. They are hoping these tactics work with you. They are hoping you aren’t paying attention to fact, but that you will be influenced by fiction. These tac- tics are disgusting, dishonest and noth- ing more than organized libel. What will county, state and federal govern- ment become when the most qualified ' and caring men and women decide it is not worth serving anymore? Rob Drexler Shelton Write and’talk to your grandparents Editor, the Journal, This year, National Grandparents Day will be on Sept. 13, the first Sun- day after Labor Day. When President Jimmy Carter signed the proclama- tion creating a National Grandparents Day, on Sept. 6, 1979, he stated that the holiday would recognize “the im- portance and worth of the 17 million grandparents in our nation.” President Carter further stated that grandpar- ents “are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them; they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space . between generations.” That might have been true when I was raising my children, but not so much, now. There are more than 70 million grandparents throughout our United States. How many of these grandparents are being recognized? I I ponder, at what age did being a grandparent come to mean that my husband and I would be set aside and become expendable? For those of you who are not familiar with the term “expendable,” the actor, Sylvester Stal- lone, gave this explanation in one of his “Rambo” movies: “If you’re invited to a party and you don’t show up, no— body misses you. That’s expendable.” Of my seven adult grandchildren, three are now having babies of their own. I’m pleased to inform that three great- grandsons and one great-granddaugh- ter have been added to the family tree now. In my generation grandparents were revered, as a source of family his- tory and life experiences. My paternal grandmother told me and my siblings about her family’s travels from Penn- sylvania to Ohio in a Conestoga wagon. Those of you who may have watched the television series “Wagon Train” can probably imagine how difficult that trip must have been, for my grand- mother and her siblings. Her stories of what life was like, when she was a child, became an integral link in the history of our family chain. She read books to us, helped us to understand the worth of family and taught my sister and I how to bake an apple pie. Grandma always saw the best is us; encouraged us to succeed. We learned how important the morals of honesty, integrity and courage are in one’s life. Grandma passed on family traditions, which my sister, brother and I passed on to our children. The three of us rev- eled in her wisdom and felt blessed to have at least this one grandparent, during our formative years. Unfortu— nately, for my two daughters, many of those traditions went by the wayside and most of their children tend not to display any semblance of even “new” family traditions; which I find sad for the new generation of great-grandchil- dren. Even though greeting card com- panies feature grandparents cards and my daughter, Wendy, makes cards, we nolonger receive cards. As my daugh— ter, Amy, would so often say, “Mom, it is what it is.” We sure do miss her. Unless you’re a “tech-savvy” grand- parent and on social media, you’re not likely to receive photos, thank-you notes, birthday, anniversary, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas or “Happy Grandparents Day” cards. Phone calls are few and far between; my husband and I don’t “text,” “twitter” and defi- nitely don’t “twerp.” While sorting out some “memory” boxes from the attic, I actually came across some Grandparents Day cards that my adult grandchildren had made when they were very young. 80, I sup— pose that my husband and I can enter- tain ourselves every September, when Grandparents Day rolls around, by taking out those cards and enjoying the memories of being acknowledged by my grandchildren, when they were very young. I continue to hold out hope that there will be a social change in how grandparents are valued and acknowl- edged; so that when my grandchildren become grandparents, they will not be set aside and made to feel that they are expendable. Cheryl A. Dunning Shelton Where are the priorities? Editor, the Journal, Rioters curse the loss of black lives at the hands of cops but where’s the concern for the murder of black chil- dren by gangs? Evidently anarchists have a limited amount of sympathy. There was a 20-plus young white woman ripping into a black police of- ficer protecting the CHOP area of Se- attle. She claimed he was a “traitor to his race.” She assumed she knew and. understood racial bigotry more than he. She knew nothing of the nuances of life generally or the life of cops protect- ing us all. She had even less knowledge of black lives. This young woman, like her class— mates, is ignorant of history and ar- rogantly proud of her ignorance. She’s passionate about the cause but unable to express her passions Without anger, profanity, and property destruction. She’s ignorant of the issues, impatient as, to changes, unclear of expectations, and lacks the knowledge of the suc- cesses and failures in our American history. Undoubtedly after this white, mid- dle-class young woman gave her one- way lecture to the Black police officer, she happily returned to her, suburban home, proud of her accomplishments. She will regale her classmates at her obscenely expensive university as to 1 how she saved the world from bigotry by using profanity-laced words to dis- cuss bigotry with a Black police officer. If she’s the face of America’s future, we’re in trouble. A quality education would have given her an understanding of the nuances between a'Black Lives Mat- ter slogan and a planned agenda for change. Today we have indoctrination, not education. This young woman is a proud graduate of Biased University on the corner of Ignorance and Stupidity. Joe Biden is running for president and running away from his 45 years of political do-nothingness. He’s blast— ing Trump about Trump’s failures but Joe had 45 years in Congress; he had . numerous opportunities to fix these problems but did nothing. Did he just discover these problems yesterday or did he ignore them for 45 years? Joe claims he’s against violence. When he went to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sept. 3, he met with the family of the man shot by the police. He never met with the owners of businesses put out of business because of violence; the violence he loudly claims he’s against. Has he ever met with the families of murdered police officers? Joe Biden is a politician and he’s playing his political Ponzi scheme with Democrats right now. Democrats should ask Joe two questions; where was he forthe previous 45 years and why has he changed his political posi- tions since the Democratic convention? Ardean A. Anvik Shelton Let’s find’the middle ground, Editor, the Journal, . As a white woman who was influ— enced by the civil rights movement of the.196OS, I never thought of myself as a racist. , But especially this year, it’s pretty clear that my limited encounters with police are vastly different from what many people of color experience. I usu- ally think of police officers andstate troopers in a positive light, that they are there to help. I’ve been pulled over a time or two for speeding and once for an expired license plate, but it never gave me a feeling of panic. I wasn’t afraid that things might go very wrong, very fast. I was never worried about i the possibility of being arrested, or thrown on the ground, or tased, orsuf- focated, or killed. What we are hearing and seeing, is that the latter is an ev- eryday reality for many people of color. Mydaughter shared that her neighbor “had the talk” with her black grandson: “When you enter a store, keep your hands out of your pockets. Don’t Wear a hoody. Be polite, no mat- ter how you’re treated.” In all the years of parenting my white children, I never needed to have that conversation with them. I’m conflicted about the protests u happening in Shelton and other parts of the country, pitting people who want to rid AmeriCa of deep-rooted racist policies, and those who say they are there to support police and protect businesses. (Some of whom are non- deputized citizens carrying guns.) I, too, don’t want to see businesses- looted. And I’m glad when first re- sponders show up during an emergen- cy. My dad was a fire chief, I know how important those services are. , But surely there is some middle ground — a way to root out racism in law enforcement and treat everyone fairly under the law. And to create communities where all 'people, what- ever their color, feel safe and protected. We should all work for that. Sandra Partridge Shelton see LETTERS, page A—7 O‘CD 9’11 1 rec