European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Ann Landers Page 11 Letten dear Ann Landers last week i at tended a funeral Visi it was extremely a 13 year old Girt had committed Sally was blonde and wanted desperately to she tried put for cheer leading and didst make in she failed to get into a single club she had signed up the girl looked so unhappy my heart ached for a few weeks ago Sally won a it was a certificate from a pizza place that entitled her to invite 14 friends to a pizza she turned Down the prize because she said she didst have 14 at the funeral Home i sat and watched the school kids come through in i counted Well Over 100 in minutes i was later i Learned More than 200 had been in and signed the guest the longer i watched the angrier it made dozens of teenagers placed a single Flower in the Many touched her hand and wept As they moved i wanted to take those kids and shake if they cared so much for Why did they wait until she died before they let her know Sally left this world believing she didst have a single if just one of those kids who passed her casket had taken time and trouble to show her a Little that dear girl might be alive please print this for All the Sal Lys out there for whom there May still be a bitter in Cincinnati dear Cincinnati heres your letter with my thanks for having written i dont know where peo ple get the idea that teenage years Are the my mail does not reflect that i sense a lot of feelings of Inadequacy and i Hope what you have written will move some teenagers to seek out the not so not Beautiful or handsome kids at school and make them feel better about it takes so Little Effort and it could As you pointed a matter of life and dear Ann Landers my husband and i live in an apart please Tell us what to do about the couple next id like to make it Clear that we Are folks who mind our own Busi Ness but we Are beginning to wonder if this is always the Wise thing to at least once a week usually on Fri Day or saturday night they get into a screaming there is a lot of obscene throwing of objects against the breaking crying by the woman with occasional pleas for the neighbors on the other Side have told us to stay out of they banged on the door in the Middle of one of those the woman answered and said in a Calm we were just having a Little we have been told that the police dont want to be bothered with family Squab but what if he kills her one of these nights wed feel somehow uneasy in Queens dear uneasy have you reported these warriors to the management if you it is up to them to insure peace and quiet for All the next time theres a Contact the party in charge of the Reader supports Star wars7 program a High ranking soviet official warned president Reagan that insistence on pursuing a Star wars missile program would hamper new arms but a Compromise would mean people would breathe the Only people who would breathe freely if Star wars was grounded would be the soviet along with agents of the Kremlin and the freeze Niks who work either directly or indirectly for these it seems that breathing freely is one of the Only freedoms that the soviet citizens have left to to shed some Light on president Rea Gans Star wars missile it is a new concept of defense that can replace our present and suicidal concept or Mutual assured destruction it is not some new concept of War in space where fighter jets vaporize each other and whole planets get blown to As was depicted so Well in the movies Star wars along with the Empire strikes Back and the return of the president reagans Star wars would replace the mad concept with assured survival the concept of mad if you attack we will attack and therell be no winners while the concept of As if you attack we will intercept your mis Siles and they will Hurt to put it another suppose a Hijack while making known his was interrupted by our who then told the Hijacker that he was a wired up human bomb who would blow up the Airliner if the Hijacker didst return to his seat and behave himself the Hijacker might return to his seat quietly and behave himself on the remainder of the but then what if he didst if our hero activated at least the Hijacker would no longer pose a threat to anybody or Ever Hijack another but what Consolation would that be to the friends and relatives of the passengers of that fateful flight than you letter to Baum older soon after i arrived in Germany i was involved in a car it caused me to be temporarily it meant not being Able to it meant wheel i soon discovered that the Post was not geared to meet my the Exchange had no ramp and even our dispensary itself Doest have a Handi capped parking space yet or a during the time of my recovery i met and became friends with a lady who had been in a much More serious Accident than she was confined to a wheel chair for a much longer period of she understood what i was talking about when i spoke about you know you never think about the handicapped until you Are i was Able to bring to the attention of the command the need for ramps and handicapped spaces to meet the needs of the to say the the command has taken i am writing to show my appreciation by those of us who really thanks so much to Post commander Toley and the Deputy Community com Mander for listening and Cline Germany fiscal profits versus ideology a recent Cente spread article of stars and stripes tells a moving Story of the mis fears and Wisdom Learned by sol Diers patrolling the Iron curtain Between East and West the men Are told that must place their bodies Between those East germans who attempt escape to the West and the East German guards shooting at in the same another article tells Banks push Loans to East Ger the Story relates How Many Banks Are clamouring for a piece of the action to loan the East germans i said a army lieutenant on the Border that every american could see this just i agree with the but would everyone see the same thing As our men on the Border rather than East German bar bed dogs and machine some would see a Chance for instead of the Wall of they would see a Way to make a the irony makes me won Der where our values Davis Netherlands about childrens to pen pals i am 22 years old and would like to have my name published in your pen pal i am a school Dominquez Villanueva philippine we would like to correspond with people in other student Lourdes faculty Enrique Villanueva municipal blah school Enrique so quillor Philippines i am 10 years and in in the 5th i am writing to ask Why cartoons Are on before sesame when my friends and i get car Toons Are Over and All there is to watch is sesame Street and All the Little kid id like to know if this can be i get Home and cartoons Are just ending at 3 then sesame Street or All of the kid shows Are on like the new zoo review and other things like i Al ways miss the shows like rubies Gentry Munich editors note David Coic to he an replies the children in our audience arrive Home from school at different in order to give All of you a Chance to see a Complete such As sesame we have to fill up the entire hour with Short items like we dont have very Many and we have a very hard time trying to get More because the people who make childrens programs just dont make cartoons some kids get to see All the cartoons we put and we Hope some see at least part of the childrens programs we broadcast every that Why cartoons Are on before sesame new zoo rubies cube and Fang face Are All finished for this when we found out which pro Grams were replacing we just happened to be rearranging a lot of other my is also 10 years she told me the same things about cartoons when we came to with our new which started March we have heckle and jeckle on at each inspector Gadget at 3 on followed by wizard at on fridays Well have space sentinels at Mindy says youll like that better be cause we have the younger childrens pro Grams on we Hope you will reminder All letters 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 protect your All letters Are subject to instead of a human we had a trained specialist who would Render the Hijacker harmless without blowing up the Airliner arid All on Board now would t this be a lot nicer and so much neater less than a year we had a presiden tial Campaign with several candidates run Ning against president one tried to win the Black vote by travelling around the playing the role of a an other tried to win the votes of 18to 35 year old going even As far As to sub tract a year or two off his age and shorten ing his and the third candidate even went so far As to pick a female running mate the Man with the female running mate got to enter the with the support of the the unions and almost every Liberal on his list of too numerous to his Promise of a nuclear freeze and a big yet no to Star wars took top but he was Defeated by a win Ning Only 13 electoral votes As opposed to reagans 525 electoral perhaps it was because the american people chose Star wars and defense Over nuclear freeze and now the Kremlin is faced with the possibility of seeing their dreams of world con quest shattered by president reagans Star wars missile program and of course the Kremlin is now that we have someone in the White House who treasures our Freedom and values our we have yet to ask our selves who will the Senate and Congress listen to the american people or the party Bosses who run the Kremlin Only time will officer Michael Mckenna Italy the european edition Usa editor in chief Cdr us Proctor Deputy editor in chief managing editor Blackwell Mcdermott production manager circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for members of the military services contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official views or endorsed the the department of defense or 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