To the editor:

I should like to compliment the NASA people for having scheduled their shuttle take off (two weeks ago) and landing (Monday) so as not to interfere with the daily airing on television of “The Regis and Kelly Show” and “The Price is Right.” Though I do not watch these shows, I have been informed by many of my senior citizen friends whom I try to help out (I, too, qualify as a senior citizen) that they were pleased at the courtesy extended them by NASA.

They are not, however, happy about the fact that President Bush, on occasion, interrupts the aforementioned programs for news conferences. Inconsideration of this sort is particularly disturbing, as Mr. Bush never speaks of the number of American children who have been killed since he initiated his attack against Iraq. One of your readers asserts, in her letter of July 16, that all is going well in Iraq. What would be her feelings if her own children had been sacrificed in such a manner?

Please let us end this indecent and immoral endeavor on the U.S. government’s part.

Robert E. Anderson,

Lawrence