European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers letters dear Ann Landers i am enclosing a Beautiful statement that you published a few years i am sure it would be appreciated by Many who May not have seen it or by people like myself who want to see it in to dear thanks for Here it is to remember me the Day will come when my body will lie upon a White Sheet neatly tucked under four Corners of a mattress located in a Hospital busily occupied with the living and the at a certain a doctor will deter mine that my brain has ceased to function and for All intents and my life has when that do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a and dont Call this my death let it be called the bed of and let my body be taken from it to help others Lead Fuller give my sight to the Man who has never seen a a baby face or love in the eyes of a give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless Days of give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his so that he might live to see his grandchildren give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to take my every every fiber and nerve in my body and find a Way to make a crippled child explore every Corner of my take my and let them grow so that someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a Bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the Flowers if you must Bury let it be my my weaknesses and All prejudice against my fellow if by Chance you wish to remember do it with a kind deed or a word to someone who needs if you do All i have 1 will live Ohio and dear i Hope that Beautiful message will inspire you to Send a donor please write to the living Box Texas kindly enclose a stamped envelope 39 cents dear Ann Landers please Tell nonsmokers not to marry it never i thought i persuade my Bride to quit after the wed big her hair and clothes smell like a dirty the House smells like a Pool she coughs at night and keeps me in seriously considering she says in am i Falls dear you Arent your loathing for cigarettes is getting to theres a bigger lesson to be Learned if something annoys you during courtship it will drive you bonkers after another View on destructive effects of nuclear War having watched the Day and having read the recent letter on i would like to make several this writer has made a valiant attempt to place nuclear War in the same category As conventional his Basic Tenet is that a nuclear War would vary from wars of the past Only in degree that such a War would simply be More through a Well researched history of nonnuclear he shows How weapons have become increasingly lethal and therefore sheer numbers of casualties would naturally this he believes is the Only i think this is a vast oversimplification of what has War can no longer be reduced to a Mere numbers it is important to recognize that nuclear weapons and nuclear wars Are not like weapons and wars of the the destructiveness is not simply different in but different in never before has the Prospect of War been linked to the Prospect of extinction of the human any Exchange of nuclear weapons is Likely to swiftly escalate into a global nuclear wars have always involved the deaths of but now we Are talk ing about the death of the world the death of All Dwight Eisenhower wrote in a letter in 1956 that nations would have to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the Era of armaments has and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or in Secretary of state Henry kiss Inger said that the accumulation of nuclear arms has to be constrained if Mankind is not to destroy Robert one of the developers of the atom said of the arms it should have been stopped the Day after referring to the first nuclear bomb tested in the United in Albert certainly respected for his the splitting of the atom changed everything save mans Mode of thus was Drift toward unparalleled what these and Many have recognized is that nuclear weapons Are not simply another step it the Progress of they threaten the very survival of the human films like the Day after and Testa ment Are not produced to make people give up Hope about their futures and the futures of their children and they Are produced to make people Wake up to the danger that we Are in As human beings on a Small and vulnerable such films can give us some of the Bene fits of Hindsight before the this is particularly valuable in an instance where we cannot afford to wait for the lessons of actual after a nuclear Hindsight will be either impossible or certainly Hind sight cannot occur if there is no one alive to engage in we cannot learn about human extinction after the so we must learn about it if we do not face Hope is reduced to Mere Wishful have Hope for our but i think it is a Hope based on the these facts Are painful and it is much easier to push them out of my but i have come to see Hope As an Active not a passive mature Hope is based on looking at the facts squarely and then trying to find those few elements upon which a Good outcome is still with this kind of Hope we can then work to strengthen those positive turning our backs on the or engaging in Wishful think can give us momentary Relief but can not do much More than the writer after any Castas natural or there Are always always there is someone who Steps Forward to Lead or in the this has been the we can Hope that this would be the Case after a global nuclear holocaust As but we have no assurances that it nuclear unlike weapons of the have a Radical Impact on the the Pentagon recently accepted the nuclear Winter theory advanced by Many respected according to this after a nuclear Exchange smoke and soot from fires and fallout would Block up to 99 percent of temperatures would drop be land and water would and the Ozone layer would be these events would Lead to the extinction of a significant proportion of the earths species of plants and animals including possibly the human we have no guarantees that anyone will live Long enough to produce offspring or that such offspring would find the Earth still capable of supporting is this a Gamble we can afford to take after the bombing in the Day and in we do indeed see acts of kindness and heroism among the Surv these positive human qualities Are shown alongside the equally human attrib utes of and what i think the films intended to say was that even the goodness of men will be of Little Avail after a nuclear we must bring our nobler motives to play before it is too its about time we realize were All in this the films show that after a nuclear Holo the Best people can do is to Comfort each other As they it is too late then for the Best of intentions to be Worth when you think of human beings have been on Earth for Only a Short we barely know yet what it is to be we must learn How to live in har Mony with the Earth and with each this takes and i Pray that we do not throw in the Towel so our Hopes Are misplaced if they Are put on the dubious abilities of survivors to rebuild after a nuclear we must instead and to prevent such a War from Ever occurring in the first place on our Small and wondrous i agree with president and i repeat his words we must meet at the conference table with the understand ing that the Era of armaments has and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or Tornow Germany the and tripes european edition Usa editor in chief qualifying for the new i Bill us Deputy editor in chief Blackwell production manager Proctor managing editor Mcdermott circulation manager i would like to find out More about this new i from what i have been told i am not entitled to it since i came into the service in 1982 nor is anybody else who came in Between july 1975 and june of but those who came in before july 1975 Are entitled to the Vietnam 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