European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Ann landed letters dear Ann Landers your answer to the woman whose Mother was Termi Nally ill was right on the How i wish i had the Bene fit of your Wisdom when my father age 49 received the same his physician advised us not to bring up the he said it should come from for three agonizing months everyone played we skirted the talked about every thing but what was important for exam How much we loved he meant to us and How Lucky we were to have had even though it want nearly Long we  even let him see us even though our hearts were breaking As we watched him slip the Day before dad died he took my hand and please take Good care of your it was the last thing he said before he went into a i dont believe he heard me dont ill do exactly As you 19 years i still break into sobs when i think of All the things that went if any of your readers Are faced with this i Hope they wont ask a doctor or anybody they should be guided by their it is so much bet ter for the As Well As the to be open and honest and a dedicated Reader in dear Reader thank you for a Beautiful heres another dear Ann Landers i am so glad you told the woman whose Mother was hopelessly ill that the patient should be our Only child died of Bone cancer two years he was he had his leg amputated above the knee and then had three operations to remove tutors from his he went through extensive chemotherapy and never once what a terrific fighter he was he knew from the beginning that his illness might be when the doctors told us there was no our son was sitting right with on the trip Home we talked openly about he planned his own funeral told us what he wanted to the music he wanted played and who should be the he asked to die at Home no no artificial life of course we respected his the last week of has life he told us to whom we should give his favorite we wrote everything the Day before he died he thanked us for not baying him and for being honest throughout his we dont ask Why we know he is in a better place and that someday we will All be if you think this letter will give strength to please print but no a Mother dear Mother what a Beautiful son you in not he certainly had remarkable i wish i could print at least a dozen More of the magnificent letters i received from readers who in a terminally ill patient almost always knows the truth and Doest need to be it is Best to talk openly about the cry laugh together share it 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 on the question of sure pay for is employees i would like to know who it is that decided that civilians do not have a right to the Security and efficiency of a system like sure when i signed my allotment i was told that my Check would be available to me on i find now that that is not in my Check Doest arrive at my Bank until 710 Days after payday the reason i am being paid 10 Days late is because some Brilliant party at is pay Roll division decided that the Apo was the Way to Send paychecks to for years the military has known that the postal system is probably the most undependable and dangerous Way to Deposit a this is Why they instituted sure with this the monies Are transferred by computer and the pay or the is available on the Day the person was to have been Why is it that the is system has not caught up to the 20th Century i Bank at pfc As does my husband who is a serv ice he has had sure pay for As Long As he has been in and never missed a on the other have been working for less than six months and have not received my last two checks at have not received an Els since i found out when i called Heidel that my Check is actually being put in an envelope and mailed no wonder i Haven been paid some idiot probably lost it or stole it if i had known they were going to mail i would have had it sent to my work and 1 would have mailed it that i could be sure it now i have to wait four to six weeks to see if someone else cashed then put a tracer on who knows when i will receive the Money due to me for a lot of hard i have always been a believer in eight hours of eight hours of but Why should i bother being dedicated when the payroll department could care less if i get paid it seems to me that when the payroll department knows that certain checks have to be sent to Banks in the United states that they could arrange to either mail them earlier to ensure timely or use a marvelous new invention called a computer which pfc knows Well How to there must be a i see no Rea son Why my getting paid should be totally dependent upon the Apo Alvarez Stuttgart editors note a spokesman from civilian army finance and accounting replies the civilian payroll office regrets that you have not received two checks and your earnings and leave statements please Contact the civilian pay 2121 7776 to Correct this problem and to ensure your checks and Els Are being mailed to your Correct a letter to Dod employees this letter is directed to All Dod civilian who were authorized to ship a privately owned vehicle Pov when they came from the but chose not read carefully prior to july actual Date is 1982 if you were authorized Pov shipment and did not ship a you would have been authorized to ship a Pov that you purchased while effective with message 2609107 july from Usa eur a Agace you lost the right to ship at government expense any what about a Pov that you purchased from a person who did ship authorized same Pov sorry about that no Usa eur a Agace did not ask the what about a Grandfather ing1 message 142016z aug from co Nav answered no grandfathering Autho what if you had asked transportation about your rights to ship a Pov Back to the United states that had been shipped by another they told no co said no at the time i requested they Are bound by the above does anyone care Usa eur co is trying to but according to it will take two years before any re Lief can be if have we been unjustly treated also what can we do about it i am not win or lose i am going to i recommend to All of you who find them selves in the same situation As myself that you begin fighting Wofford Germany a thank you to postal unit it is easy to find it is possible to explain or find the reason when things Arent it is Only laziness which too often inhibits the writing of a letter of Praise or commendation to the postal Apo after 20 years of government i am finally impelled to write in Praise of the Fine soldiers of Apo the postal i have experienced Many Levels of service but never before have i been so the Young men and women of the Vicenza postal unit Are outstanding in attitude and i could not select any one for Ive had excellent service from including their officer who pitched in to help hand out Hakim Italy letters requested for the sick recently my Best Angie was Given a hardship discharge because her Mother is dying of i mentioned that i had read a letter in the stars and stripes where someone had asked people to Send postcards to a sick Angie thought that it was a wonderful idea and wondered if people would do the same for her i Hope that people can take a few min pen pals i would very much he to be pen pals with service members stationed i am 24 Vears aay father was in the Navy for years to i have lived in quite a few i work for a Law firm As a and am starting my training As utes and Send a postcard to Laura roman 8r 458 Jamaica 11208 i am sure that roman would Cher ish each and every thank Mary Waddell Raf upper England a Legal our Ken 3087 Bra Klev t2 Temple 20748 i would like very much to have pen i am 19 years Rechella rub la foundation University Dumaguet Philippines sure pay is a term that applies Only to military pay that is disbursed from fort direct Deposit is the term used to describe the method of payment for those civilian employees who have Money going direct to a financial organi direct Deposit checks Are mailed to stateside financial organizations As soon As the computer prints them monday of payday the alternative to mailing checks to a financial organization is to Transfer the funds this procedure is called electronic funds Transfer Eft distributes funds through a Federal Reserve Bank into the automated Clearing House Ach and then to the individual financial Eft is not currently available in the Standard army civilian payroll system overseas we do not have Access to a Federal Reserve Bank and therefore do not have Access to the we Are currently working to establish a modified Eft which will get deposits to stateside financial organizations faster than using the postal were in the Early stage of contracting this service and its too Early to speculate when it will be Avail representatives from american sex service credit Union and Andrews credit Union located on military bases in Germany pick up their composite Check and listings from the civilian payroll office on monday of payday while pfc Bremerhaven and finance Center credit Union receive their composite checks via Apo we can guarantee that these deposits Are available on payday Only if we receive a properly completed time and attendance european edition Usa editor in chief 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 the european the appearance of advertising in this including inserts or does not constitute endorsement by the department of or the stars and stripes of the products or services everything advertised in this publication shall be made available for or patronage without regard to National marital 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