To the editor:

Was Monday’s front page article entitled “Minister’s children follow his footsteps into the Marines” really front page news? Especially in this blue town/county where most of the people realize that the war in Iraq was not only illegal but had no relation to the war on terror?

First, if you want to bring the Bible into it, then you have to quote it correctly. “Thou shall not kill” is what I remember. Maybe there is a different version that adds “except in self-defense.”

Second, what freedoms of mine are those men and women in Iraq fighting to protect? What rights would I lose if they were not there? Why should I blindly “support the troops” when there was and is no real reason for them to be there? Wouldn’t it have been more supportive of the troops to have resisted sending them there in the first place?

If the story had run in the “Lawrence and State” section instead, then I would have only been disgusted by the personal views expressed. With it being on the front page, all it says to me is that there were no other stories in the world as important as this one.

Corey Williams,

Lawrence