Point The Pen
A recent letter in Middletown’s Times Harold-Record entitled: “Send critics to war” by Alma Wilson prompted a constrained rebuttal. I had a letter published in that paper two days earlier and don’t expect the newspaper will publish my rebuttal. Consequently, I’ve decided to post it.
The letter complained: “There are too many films coming out this fall critical of America. With approximately 200,000 men and women in combat zones, left-wing loonies want to denigrate our country.
“During the Second World War, President Roosevelt censored U.S. films that depicted scenes that might be used as ‘enemy propaganda.’ But today it is ‘chic’ in the entertainment industry as well as the media to bash America — even while Americans are dying overseas. Solution: Send them all over to the battlegrounds for a year and then we can talk again. Cowards.
“To quote Edgar A. Guest, ‘These are the days when little thoughts must cease men’s minds to occupy: The nation needs men’s larger creeds, Big men must answer to her cry: No longer selfish ways we tread, the greater task lies just ahead.’”
My rebuttal stated: On 11/17/07, Alma Wilson suggested that people that “bash America” should be sent to war, because they’re “Cowards.” She quotes: Edgar A. Guest to illustrate her point. However, I prefer to quote Theodore Roosevelt, who said: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I’m one of those left-wing loonies, who condemn Bush and our imperialistic military-industrial complex for depreciating America, by invading Iraq.
Shortly after my 18th birthday, I enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Today, I’m considered a “Coward.” At 72 years of age, our military-industrial complex would find me psychologically unacceptable to be used as economic cannon fodder. It’s too risky, because I recall the last line of Dalton Trumbo’s timeless anti-war masterpiece “Johnny Got His Gun.” Quote: “You plan the wars you masters of men and point the way and we will point the gun.”
Furthermore, during WW II, we lived near a military base and found it foolish that our troops were not allowed to see “Gone With The Wind.”
The letter complained: “There are too many films coming out this fall critical of America. With approximately 200,000 men and women in combat zones, left-wing loonies want to denigrate our country.
“During the Second World War, President Roosevelt censored U.S. films that depicted scenes that might be used as ‘enemy propaganda.’ But today it is ‘chic’ in the entertainment industry as well as the media to bash America — even while Americans are dying overseas. Solution: Send them all over to the battlegrounds for a year and then we can talk again. Cowards.
“To quote Edgar A. Guest, ‘These are the days when little thoughts must cease men’s minds to occupy: The nation needs men’s larger creeds, Big men must answer to her cry: No longer selfish ways we tread, the greater task lies just ahead.’”
My rebuttal stated: On 11/17/07, Alma Wilson suggested that people that “bash America” should be sent to war, because they’re “Cowards.” She quotes: Edgar A. Guest to illustrate her point. However, I prefer to quote Theodore Roosevelt, who said: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I’m one of those left-wing loonies, who condemn Bush and our imperialistic military-industrial complex for depreciating America, by invading Iraq.
Shortly after my 18th birthday, I enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Today, I’m considered a “Coward.” At 72 years of age, our military-industrial complex would find me psychologically unacceptable to be used as economic cannon fodder. It’s too risky, because I recall the last line of Dalton Trumbo’s timeless anti-war masterpiece “Johnny Got His Gun.” Quote: “You plan the wars you masters of men and point the way and we will point the gun.”
Furthermore, during WW II, we lived near a military base and found it foolish that our troops were not allowed to see “Gone With The Wind.”
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