European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes february 1981 tetters of the editor Vij i thoughts on a dangerous prank recently i went to visit friends in the housing there were few parking spaces due to All the i parked Down the Street from my friends building in front of another later in the Day i happened to look out the window Down the Street and saw several adults and children Good training for the children shovelling and packing Snow around my i too late to do anything about it ill just shovel out when i after spending 10 or 15 minutes shovel ing out my i moved the car into the Street and returned the Snow to the now empty parking i am not the kind of person to pile Snow in the Street or behind other As i was getting in my car to i heard someone Call to me from one of the Hope you had fun it want but it want a mad Dening experience i would have been mad if i had been a coming to Tell a wife without a phone that her husband had been injured in the i would have been upset if i had come to talk Over a traumatic experience with a i would have been mad if i were pregnant and had gone into or had sliced off my or slipped in the Shower and needed to get to the what kind of strange enjoyment did and the children get from packing in my then watching me dig it out what satisfaction did it give you my parents taught me that pranks like that were not Only but that they could be How would you have Felt if i had come out with a Mother and her injured desperately needing to get to the Dis Only to find my car packed in Snow Ive had to play ambulance i do understand that you spent time dig Ging out a parking i do understand your the Only reserved parking by Community commander on Post is behind the my next time someone Parks in front of your building and you have no place to take a few things into the person who parked there May be there be cause of a medical May be faced with a medical or it May be just some Young Soldier faced with the mental emergency to get out of the bar withheld Germany please bless this mess i am writing because i feel maybe somebody in the White House May read your paper and pose the question to our i am 20 years a College student and Par time i know there Are people in the same situation As so ill speak for All of could somebody please Tell me Why million was spent on a firework display and party when there Are students who need school systems and highways redone Ive been in England for the last three months and to look at my country i hold so very dear and see things like that just astonishes my i can understand but please lets not be if the government is lacking in ideas As to what they should do with ask any College student like me what would they like or better yet what do they need i thank former president Carter for bringing a Little love and warmth to this it was badly no one in their right mind would deny and if the United states government is going to Start off a term with an eleven million Dollar Well All i can say is please bless this withheld High England thanking her Many old friends several weeks ago you published a letter written by me on the behalf of Frau Schu it took five weeks to be published and Between the time i wrote and the bad nauheim Community rallied and showed great care for they received my letter As an insult and the whole thing has been if you could publish this thank you from it would Clear the air and help a dying Frau Trudy Schumacher has asked me to write on her behalf to thank the Many old friends and even strangers who have written and called since her she would like to express a special thanks to the children and other members of the bad nauheim Community who have been constantly caring and supportive Dur ing her prolonged Knych Germany appalled at shot of Carters fall is the world so devoid of news that a fall of former president Jimmy Carter while jogging warrants almost a full Page in your newspaper i am appalled that a picture of the exp resident on All fours would be deemed fit to print As to say it lacks Good taste is an during Franklin Roosevelt tenure in office in the 30s and it was an unspoken pact that his crippled legs would not be neither was he photo graphed being lifted into and out of a the Man and his office were More important than his would such standards exist in the world of journalism today they certainly seem absent in the stars and Matthews Italy problem of handicapped children we would like to Praise stars and stripes for the Many Fine articles it has continually printed on behalf of the handicapped Over the past several our parents advocacy family feels stars and stripes readers should be aware of the misleading Hope that May have been Given by the letter to the entitled handicapped help the reply to that letter from Dodds was the Way help is Given to handicapped children according to theory and in the practical area of appropriate help to the handicapped children the facts Are much there Are simply too Many children needing help for the number of special education teachers military personnel Are misleadingly assigned overseas with the Assur Ance that their handicapped child can be but Only the most severely handicapped Are mild to moderate learning disability children will receive no special local professionals serving the handicapped Are outstanding and but they cannot begin to help All the learning disability students who need to acquire specific learning skills in order to succeed in by Federal Dodds schools must now also provide occupational speech therapy and other related services to handicapped medical facilities will no longer provide these Dodds has been Given the but not provided the funds to carry it these funds will be secured one of two As in the recent Cox court the funds will come As a result of a the More positive the funds will come when parents use our democratic system and lobby Congress for the funds to be allotted to All advances on behalf of handicapped children have come As a result of advocacy by Parent groups who cared about their parents need to be aware that no one is going to fight for the child except the if the Parent Doest no one else it is time for parents of handicapped children overseas to band together and write to to to senators and to the new who says he cares about the it is time to urge them to provide funds to adequately educate our special parents need to join advocacy groups to support dedicated local teachers and to create Public awareness in local to learn How to Start a parents advocacy for general information concerning the rights of the handicapped or information on a specific handicapping parents should write closer Box 20013 a Public information Center funded by the of education and Bureau of education for the Popp publicity family forum Germany on removal of Kia member maps i read in the stars and stripes recently that five military policemen from fort were removed because of be ing members of the Kun Siux As a military policeman myself and a firm believer in the i just dont see where William Post com can say and remove these person Nel for being with the he As Post commander i have reason to wonder whether these individuals could perform their Law enforcement duties fairly and did these personnel do the Job up to the army standards up to then or what my main Point in this is Why Are Whites in the military reclassified for being with the Kkt and Blacks Arent for being with the a act James Lewis Germany editors note a Usa eur spokesman replies membership in the Kkt is it enjoys the constitutional protections of Freedom of speech and Freedom of Assoc a the question of membership in and of is not at the Kkt has a Long history of violence and repression against anyone not White Anglo Saxon the Keystone of Kkt activities has been intimidation and military policemen Are sworn to up hold the Law and to defend the cons Titu food for thought this morning while eating breakfast i firmly decided to you May because i read it on my milk Dennis Weed Germany it is a commanders responsibility to ensure that the military police under his or her command conduct their affairs in a professional and impartial the tenets of the to which members must pledge stress the ascend Ancy of the White Anglo Saxon protestant Over All it is doubtful that such an individual could perform duties in an impartial the on the other is an organization which has worked within the framework of the to promote members of the which includes Are not sworn to secrecy nor Are they pledged to promote the advancement of Blacks and at the expense european edition Rose Usa editor chief Usan dept v editor Lnch Mert Proctor managing editor Elmer Henry production manager circulation manager reminder All to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and must be we do not read unsigned but we will withhold your name on request and 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