European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and of ripes Page 11 Ann Landers letters dear Ann Landers we Are a couple of old age pensioners in a Nowin unless you can figure a Way our Only daughter married a very successful she worked for nine years after she mar ried and banked All her she said she would quit after she had a now she has two babies under four years of age and wants to return to she hates staying Home with her she asked dad and me if we would look after the tots until she could find a suitable now she claims the Little ones love us she Doest want a she pays us a week to watch the says we dont need the Money and has suggested we Bank it for their she claims we Are Lucky to have the that everyone envies us and its a real Honor that she trusts we have a Choice either to Start raising her family or Shell take the children and we wont see them her husbands family cant take them because they travel a to punish them she hardly Ever lets them visit the we love these but 10 hours a Day is a Long my doctor told its up to you to we dont want to see the Little ones but our daughter says they will be if we dont take them while she she claims no outsiders could take our old Gray Heads dear Heads if you can hang in there for a while until the kids Are ready for Nursery it would be a terrific break for Bank the a week for a vacation for you deserve dear Ann Landers i Hope you wont think this top corny to when i first read it it arrived it sounded like Little Goody the second time i read it came through As practical and please print dear Tex right you often the simple things Are the i like Here it is ten commandments of human relations speak to there is nothing so Nice As a cheerful word of smile at it takes 72 Muscles to Only 14 to Call people by the sweetest music to anyone ears is the sound of his own be Friendly and if you want you must be be speak and act As if every thing you do is a Joy to be genuinely interested in you can like almost everybody if you be generous with Praise and cautious with be considerate with the feelings of there Are usually three sides to a controversy the other Fellows and the right be eager to lend a helping often it is appreciated More than you what counts most in life is what we do for add to this a Good sense of a huge dose of patience and a dash of humid this combination will open Many doors and the regards will be 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 readers tired of complaints about the Barracks to the single Soldier in the Barracks in ludwigs Burg i sympathize with you and remember the conditions under which i had to live please see it from my Point of we Tell you which drawers to put your underwear we make you keep your locker looking like the company if we your locker and insert would be a we make you your rooms until late at that Only because your room was you had the Chance to clean it on your but you be sides some people live like pigs and if we didst keep the rooms clean you would cry to us about your dirty like you always As far As the late remember we Are too not at Home with our families in our about the stuffed there were so Many at one time that there was no room for your that keep the pictures on a thin piece of it helps to preserve the Walls and to keep the big holes from damaging the so you forgot the trash once and someone got maybe they didst want you to forget i pull staff duty often and when i see a trashed out i have the charge of quarters cd get it i dont want to see another outbreak of crabs like a few months i dont see How you have to stand in line for a Shower after you fall out at the Gate every Day and by the time we get Back youve showered and Are on your Way to Are you really old enough to put your life on the line you complain like a child and every time you have to do something you dont like you throw a however the commander has Felt youre old enough to drink in the Barracks How Long will it last until one of your buddies gets throws up All Over you and fights whoever tries to help so you dont like the military you dont like the and any of the rules we you were not drafted you if you dont like what you asked get out and let someone who docs fill your Acosta Germany i read with interest the letter concern ing problems with Barracks i wish 1 could sympathize with you but i i spent 26 years in the military and of that 12 were spent in the the first 7 were in the air Force and the remainder in the from Al through and e4 through i became an expert on parties and everything else that had to do with bar Racks but one thing i was never Able to do during that time was to equate Barracks living with putting my life on the i enjoyed Barracks living and during those in developed great friendships some of which exist to this like chose to serve in the armed and i was aware that my lifestyle would not be the same As when i was at i wont go into the need for bar Racks or military but i will mention Barracks the if that exist there Are not the fault of the they Stem from you and your what neatness for every person Liv ing in the theres a different def by setting a Standard of neatness that is the same for each member is protected from individual standards of those placed in a position of authority Over cleanliness did you expect a maid or Butler to be assigned to your Barracks you mess it up you clean it As for the your Mission Doest Al Reader opposes draft registration i am writing in response to a recent let i read stars and stripes every Day and have found it to be fair in presenting opposing in this Light i Hope you will print my the letter to which i wish to respond pertains to draft i am in the armed but i do not support mandatory draft registration or mandatory military i enlisted in the army three years and did so of my own free Freedom of Choice is the subject of this i joined the army because of the College leap some people join for a some for the and some for the Job we All have a personal reason for enlist we know this and Uncle Sam knows people who choose not to enter Mili tary service Are not they serve in different they go to College and design our weapons our Abc our or they simply pay the taxes of which our paychecks Are if they choose not to Register for Manda tory service it is because they believe in their right of i happen to agree with our ancestors fought not to gain but to free us from those who were deny ing us our natural these Are the self evident rights of every human not just we As american soldiers fight to defend the rights of every human being be they in or the minute we take away someones right of we become no better than those we Are fighting we cant fight and die to defend these rights in other countries and turn around and deny those rights to our own military service should not be mandatory for every Young i want to work and fight next to someone who chooses to be not someone enslaved into As Well As Many Pride myself on my motivation and desire to do my Job to the Best of my a person forced into service would have neither of those qualities and i could not Trust or depend on him in any work or Ive freely chosen to serve four years some people choose not and that Freedom or Choice is what America is All the very key to the Success of our armed forces is that we choose to we Are and have a desire to this is what makes us the greatest army in the and ours the greatest lets continue to practice what we american soldiers so strongly preach 4 Richard Jacques Berlin pen pals i am a 30yearold teacher who would like to correspond with people in other my hobbles Are arts and crafts and correspond Seaton 44 Worchester Sydenham Spanish town Saint Catherine West indies i am a 16yearold i would like to have pen pals from i am presently in my fourth year of High my hobbles include singing and Malolot Larena so quillor 6603 Philippines i would like pen i am 16 years old and like singing and Cresencio Dumaguet City Philippines please publish my in interested to have pen pals in your i am 28 years old and a Field i like collecting watching listening to Reading and Enolpe 162 Alfonso Xiii Oum Oguete clly6501 Philippines ways allow you an Opportunity to perform those duties during the sometimes the clean up must come on a weekend during those years of Barracks Resi 1 found that there were those who didst do their we handled the situations ourselves and made them respectable members of Pur Barracks bar Racks living is a sharing experience whether your want to believe in or the Mere fact that several live in a room or an open Bay should make each aware of the and help you realize that working together in the Barracks As you would in the office or on a tank Crew could Only make the situation better for All perhaps you were one of those unlucky people that never had to make a clean your room or the to sweep or dust or Wash a you missed out on a i  advise you to get married in order to escape these conditions you men i would that you need a change of Gilbert Germany oops in your stripes Magazine you ran a photo this picture is a scene from starman starring Karen Allen and Jeff under this picture is script for the movie night of the the rest of the Page contains movie list nowhere on that Page is there an advertisement for thank you for your Smith saudi Arabia youre we the and stripes european edition Usa editor in chief us Deputy editor in chief Blackwell production manager Proctor managing editor Mcdermott 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 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