European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Lande dear Ann Landers do you have the courage to print this letter it is sure to make you extremely unpopular with your Young especially after the letter you printed recently on this same i must write it be cause i firmly be Lieve that part of what is wrong with teenagers today has a lot to do with their nobody can listen to Rock for hours on end for months and and not be seriously affected by a while Back i attended a Rock concert at the Mayo civic auditorium in the performing group was the those initials stand for we Are sexually one of their numbers featured the beating of a Young girl who wore very their messages were suicide is the lyrics of dont fear the reaper were a tune by Blue Oyster cult about a suicide pact Between Young lovers made death sound another plays songs like Gimme a Bullet and shoot to is it any wonder teenage suicide has doubled in the last decade the mental health experts Tell us that Over half a Mil lion kids try to kill themselves every it is reasonable to assume that Young people who Are depressed can be pushed Over the Edge by Rock groups that urge kids to pull the trigger pull it rebellion and violence Are prominent in Rock songs like flaming youth encourage Young people to use their Power to Elton in the song Benny and the we shall let us take ourselves along where we fight our parents out on the streets to find who right and who sex is the underlying theme of most Rock some of the titles Are so suggestive you print them in a family new spa Rock music glorifies drugs and gives the impression that everyone is doing comfortably numb by Pink fantasy by Aldo and that Oldie by the Lucy in the sky with i Are a few add the drug culture influence to what we read in the Wall Street journal about today children of the they expect to enjoy All the luxuries their parents have but they dont want to work that i am concerned about our Beautiful the russians wont have to fire a in dear realistic i am printing your letter with no com id like to hear what the Rock enthusiasts have to and anyone else for that dear Ann Landers did you not receive even one letter among the thousands who wrote about the toilet seat controversy warning Young parents of the danger of 1and 2yearolds drowning when the seat is left up i have seen reports of three toddlers who Stum bled and drowned in toilet its terribly sad when children Are Vic Tims of but they should never be Vic Tims of our professor of paediatrics Duke University medical dear Jay thanks for the you always come up with the most useful additions to this in awfully Happy i know America Syndicate 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 think carefully before leaving says Reader on i made one of the biggest mistakes i have Ever i decided i want getting anywhere in the army and that it was time i chose another i was pregnant and chose to take a pregnancy discharge chapter i had six years i service and had made with my Defiance outweighing my common i went Back to out process and came Back to Germany to be with my in january i changed my sitting at Home just want for i went to Robinson Barracks to the local army recruiting i wanted to come Back in the army the same service i had a few months earlier so haughtily what i was shown and told by the army Recruiter was that there is an army Regula Tion that states that if your spouse is a serv ice member or if you Are a single in order to come Back Active duty or enlist Active you must give your children Over by court order to someone other than your spouse for the length of time of your if you Are already in the service As a single Parent or your is a there is no regulation that says you must give up your according to the message that came this regulation was established to eliminate the problems concerning single parents coming into the military and also eliminate the Many problems of dual serv i believe this is a ridiculous regulation on the basis that As Long As you have male and females in the you will have single parents you will have dual service members with and there will always be problems concerning the the army advocates the year of the family and the year of the what does separation of the children from their parents do to both the parents and to the children children grow too much in three years to expect parents to accept this Situa i feel the concern expressed by the Mes Sage and the idea behind those problems considered in the message were i feel the army has not fully considered the consequences and effects on the service members and their there has to be a better Way of eliminating the my main purpose for writing this article was not to but to warn other service members that when they con Sider getting out of the service to consider the facts they should also consider the figures that and i May be wrong on this but i believe the statistics show that nearly 60 percent of All personnel who get out of the military return or try to return within one or two years of that is a pretty impressive Fig a Choice Between my children and the armed forces to no Choice at Geisler Germany editors note Howard Europe recruiting replies the writer is absolutely Correct in that she is not currently eligible to return to the army because she is married to a service member and they possess dependents under the age of 18 years of for service members who Are married it really is a Small world my father has provided me with the enclosed photograph of Glenn and Otis streets taken at fort Benjamin i do not have any historical information about the streets and Why the names Glenn and Otis were but i do know that the streets were named Well before the commander in chief of Glenn Ever earned Star Eric Waldkoetter Frankfurt editors note our Washington Bureau chief Clint Swift contacted Sally spokeswoman for fort Benjamin who says Glenn Road is named for Edwin Post commander from 1912 to Otis Avenue is named for Elwell commander of forces during the philippine insurrection of plea for sports coverage change today was the last Ive had All i can put up Ive written to an in Hopes that we could resolve this minor irritation out of but it appears we Are going to have to go Public in Hopes of acquiring Community the problem fans 7 morning sports after you Weed out what you want to the coverage is basically the Only problem is that you have to Weed out what you want to to be a bit More some of us working people must be at our duty Section by some of us do not have the luxury of having a radio available in the duty Section and some of us would just like to hear the results of the previous evenings sporting competitions without having to endure All the comments and other extraneous verbiage that accompany fans sports please do not i am not asking that an suspend broadcasting the in just asking that they tailor their coverage to enable those of us with limited time to get the essence of the i can listen to the scores and then turn off the radio and get to those who have the time can listen to the hockey inter View in the Middle of the baseball season if they is that asking too much come on give us a break please Gendolfe Ramstein Germany editors note Navy chief journalist William an radio broadcast replies sportscast on an radio Are patterned after successful american network sports programs aired in the United As each of the sports is dealt with in the voice inserts you hear Are used to reinforce and explain those stories that editors believe will have the greatest Impact in the sports in other the More significant a Story the More coverage it stories of lesser significance and this includes scores and standings occasionally will not receive As much prominence within a for an to provide the Type of cover age you suggest in your we would have to leapfrog All around the sports world in each the result would be a disjointed and confusing sports program you would like even thanks for your and were always trying to develop methods for streamlining news and sports pen pals i would like to be added to your pen pal i am 18 years my hobbles Are dancing and Cresencio Canda Uay Dumaguet Philippines i would like to have pen i like to watch video movies and in 24 years Helms pc Box 1241 Apo 09109 to another service member and that have dependents under the age of 18 years of this is an excellent Case study and one that married couples should use As a reference prior to considering to leave the one thing that should be made perfectly Clear is that the writer is not disqualified from returning to the service simply be cause she is a female with a child and a husband in the if she were in the military and her husband was a civilian and they had a child under the age of then he would be ineligible to enter to regular the writer mentions in her letter that she could have transferred custody of her child to another Legal guardian in order to enter the this is army regulation 601210 allows single parents and spouses of service members to Transfer custody of their through a Legal state court to an other adult with the stipulation that the Parent will not regain custody of the child during the term of service for which they Are if custody is then action will normally be taken to separate the service member from the during the past year the Europe re cuiting company has not enlisted anyone into the regular army that has transferred custody of their in All cases the applicants made the Choice not to enter the service and made the decision to seek an occupation that would allow custody of their children to remain in i want to thank the writer for her letter for bringing this Issue to the Public Eye because it is one the army recruiters in 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