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To the editor: Here is a quotation from your paper on Aug. 24. It is the answer to the previous day’s cryptogram. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama. As we enter another fall and winter of the pandemic, I ...
To the editor: Dear Dr. Roger Marshall, I find your position on mask wearing and vaccination in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic amazing! You, as a physician, should be expected to know more than most about the seriousness of this pandemic! To support a casual approach to this ...
To the editor: I Googled up the history of Afghanistan today. It was fascinating reading. This part of the world consists of numerous tribes that have been fighting each other over religion and power for at least five thousand years. The British lost three wars in Afghanistan between 1860 ...
To the editor: Your “freedoms” end at others’ noses. Your vaccination and mask refusals threaten everyone else’s “freedoms” to stay safe and healthy. Your decisions are based on false, manipulated, deadly information. This is an aggressive assault on us all. Vaccines are safe for ...
To the editor: I am addressing this to the three generations that followed mine: the Baby Boomers, Generation X and millennials. The generations who are now, for better or worse, running my country. When I was born, Herbert Hoover was our president. So, I have lived many more years than ...
To the editor: I am a military veteran who was 11 when Saigon fell. As a retired Coast Guard officer, I also did not deploy to Afghanistan. My father did two tours in South Vietnam, and the loss of that country, despite its problems, was tragic for his generation. In some ways the sudden and ...