European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Columns reflections photo by Chuck Vinch finding answers to those letters to the editor by John Windrow staff columnist one of my fellow copy editors brought great merriment to the news ask recently by telling about a letter his editor received when he was working at a Smalt paper in a Man had sent the newspaper a by Tref diatribe against Daylight saving it was unnatural to mess with the suns position in the the Man and the extra hour of Daylight every Day was burning up his he sent photographs of the withered grass in his front Yard to prove his How could we argue with that my Friend he Towi this brr Tusto mind the line in Evelyn laughs hilarious novel pokes great fun at the people who work at and read people who write to the Waugh Are proverbially that a great one i often recall when i read the sirs Sitf stripes but hardly How else is the Reader to strike a blow at the absence of the mindless the stupid mistakes and platitudes that leap put at him from the pages of his daily newspaper we get amount of letters at some Are some some others appear to be the ravings of befuddled they cover Many one singular letter i read was from a person who demanded to know Why the germans stubbornly cling to German instead of speaking after the writer pointed american troops have been in Germany for 40 an generates bags of the most touching Are from soap opera addicts who have moved across the sea Only to discover that the soap opera Over Here is woefully out of sync with the soap opera that they left behind in Little they demand to know Why an wont Tell them if Nellie has died of cancer Orff evil Brad seduced Plain Jane and stole her Gold we get letters from people who say they watch an 12 hours a seven Days a a ringing endorsement an they they just want to warn everyone else not to watch the Emorn Siary is another favorite people Wrife of counties Miles through the horrible weather tit Lcuy 9 liter of milk for the Only to find 0qe How German stores Selling milk they passed on the people write about child promotions and most of the questions seem logical but sometimes the answers we dig up for them Are another matter Pett Fogger replies in response to your readers regulation ar678xq3 clearly that when the Moon is full and co this causes and we get letters about the answers to our an exception is master Bruce who works in customer relations for cafes Down in his answers Are so so that we get letters praising Bruce from stripes letters i figure he answers about 20 letters a i Hope he gets some Type of hardship pay for he once answered a letter from a woman who was furious that the commissary sold hot dogs 10 to a but buns eight to a pack what was she supposed to do with those two extra dogs she called on Bruce Zielsdorf to set things his reply bordered on the her child might Snitch a Winnie and gobble it Down with no he or the family dog might Woof one off the then shed be sitting there with eight buns and eight he even cafes must Bend at times to the whims of the corporate something vaguely reassuring in a Power in the universe greater than when president Europe this we got a raft of letters about his visit to the Pitburg these letters were about stories wed run on the after we printed the up ran a Story about our from the what do military people in Europe think this presented us with a great should we run the up thus printing a Story about the letters about Bur Story surely wed get More then we could run letters about the Story about the letters about our for reason or other we didst do May stripes Magazine