European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1985 the stars and stripes Ann Landers Page 11 letter dear Ann Landers something happened last night that i shall never i when i read your splendid response to the Man who was knocking the United that i had to share this with after your hating Reader blasted this country and reeled off its i loved your recitation of the Joys of Freedom and the last line in glad my parents didst miss the boat last night i was at a bar having a few drinks when a Man approached me and in halting English i sit please he seemed courteous and obviously wanted to talk so i he ordered a drink for himself and this is what he said in in America one you born i wait Many years in Bangkok for Catholic charities to get papers so i come to your great when i Fly to America it was like i go first to then new York wonderful places you have you have so Many i no understand at i read any Book or paper i the papers write against the government and nobody puts them in a Man on a Street can talk against the government and he does not get i can see anything i want on to and in the nobody Tell me what to look nobody report there Are so Many things to buy in stores if a person has i can live anywhere i want if i pay nobody Tell me what kind of Job to i can do work i like or quit if i dont i can talk against my Boss if i want and even the hell with president and no soldiers will come for me in the in my coun try they would drag me away and i would be dead in one americans Are the Luckiest people in the i where did you come from he in nyc Dea Rrt what a great thank you for reminding us How Good we have some times we dear Ann Landers recently in your column Ive seen a lot of letters from writing about i Hope you will print mine because the others Ive seen Are from 16and 17yearold in speaking to the younger i am please dont assume in a tramp because in Only 14 and Ive already had in not a i have had Only one sexual but Ive had sex More than what i want to say is that my parents have always been very uptight about the reason i had sex with my 16year old Boyfriend was to spite they think he is too old for i have no in one Day i plan to give my parents a heart attack when i Tell them what weve been i want to Tell All parents to talk freely to their teenagers about if you dont Experiment without the slightest idea of what they might be getting but experienced dear Young you and your folks need joint your concepts about open communications Are Good but your hostility is c news America Syndicate Reader relates problem with handling of the mail pen pals please place my name on your pen pal i am 21 years old and i like Ball scrabble and Jumawan Saint Paul College Dumaqu Ete Philippines i would like to have pen i am 21 years i like Ball and Reading Silot 93 l Rovana Street Dumaguet City Philippines i am a 13yearold East German boy who would like to correspond with american boys or girls about my own Fuessel am Wald Rand 10 6608 Lehndorf East Germany i am writing in reference to the postal i am not writing to accuse anyone in but i am writing to make an i was on leave in the during March and april of this during this period i mailed two boxes Back to Germany con Taining items that cannot be purchased in clothes that i had taken on leave and did not some video tapes and a couple of the first Box was mailed on March 25 and the second on april both were sent by priority mail but neither was in i arrived Back in Germany on april 10 and the Box sent april 3 was at my battalion mail the Box mailed first still Hast i did not feel the need to insure the boxes because in two Tours in i have never had a problem receiving packages that Are not even though this is my first it is a great one to one of the items in the Box was Newport i did not know until recently that you Are not supposed to Send cigarettes from the United states to but they were listed on the form that is required to be on the packages going to and from the United it was mailed in Fayette and nothing was said when the package was turned in for even though cigarettes Are Over a car ton in the that is a loss i can but the other items in the Box meant More to there was a new skirt and jacket Burgundy in color with Nav Blue pin stripes three Short sets for a Little Pink and yellow and a Matching package of underwear and socks a Ladys dark Green sport jacket and Vest with Gold Button eight to 10 vhf video tapes one Orginia which was prom night and several other the Box was a Light Lavender color with the word Spiegel All Over it in White letters but i had made a single Black line through All of them and the Box was addressed to me in i went try and i met a specialist five who is a postal clerk in i was talking about How Long it was taking my package and was told that if it want insured i want going to get it because of the items listed on the she told me that it is much too easy to lift packages from the Apo if they Are not her words to coupled with the fact that i have not received my made me realize that i needed to do 1 realize that i probably will never see my things but maybe by my writing this someone else will be spared or at least there will be a closer watch on the personnel handling our insured or i am hoping that with the Short description of some of the items contained in the someone May have a Lead on who is literally stealing from us through the Post Al system and report it and let Justice be you May be the next if we cannot Send our letters and pack Ages through the mail without fear of them being where do we go from Here 5 Brown Germany editors note 1st Daniel mail services army postal group 1st per replies it is always unfortunate when a Mailer receives postal service which is less than first class All the Way the information i provide will help you under stand possible reasons Why your parcel has not some parcels tear or break open while in the postal allowing the contents to be separated from the in such postal workers make every Effort to return Loose items to the proper parcel and re wrap the parcel so it can be delivered to the if mail handlers cannot deter mine what parcel the Loose items came from or the Correct address of the sender or the items Are sent to the postal service uses dead parcel of since you can describe the contents of your your local postal officer can assist you in completing a mail loss which is sent through the postal system in an attempt to locate your miss ing warning sounded on apathy in reports began to filter out of then nazi dominated Europe about what the West called the alleged systematic extermination of the Peoples of hitlers lesser in when the world had suffered through six years of total War and 50 million we were confronted with the proof of the horror we could have prevented but chose to it is now in South in in thousands die each they Are the victims of another Geno we see the we hear the Eye witnesses and we repeat our performance of 40 years we ignore the horror and allow people to die we accept their the world is at War How foolish we Are to ignore to pretend that we Are not deeply involved in in this global conflict please include my name on your pen pal i am 24 years old and a my hobbles Are listening to Good music and Mendoza Kalum Boyan Banawan Negros Oriental 6506 Philippines please include my name on your list of pen some of my hobbles Are Flower going to picnics and i am presently employed As an office Gamora Rural publication Center sell Man University Dumaguet City 6501 i would like to have pen pals of All Miller 1227 Marylne 18017 we Are victims we Are we Are not Safe at any or in any until we determine that Force must be answered with Force we will be no More than helpless no one should no one should no one should die in is it better to die As the jews of War saw died for so peacefully or is it better to die As the jews of War saw finally in defending their right to live and die As they choose America has to answer that question if we must let us die As a free if we can still let us live As a free Douglas Blackley Turkey no criticized i was visiting a unit when i overheard a senior male no comment on the status of a female his comment when is that girl com ing to work Here that girl he was referring to is a staff sergeant i was offended by the remark but not these Nio ranking no in question often makes comments not favourable toward if it had been a male he was talking i doubt he would have when is that Guy sexism is bad for and Low mor ale is bad for the perhaps we should All keep that in and location withheld your parcel May have been confiscated by postal inspectors or Cus Toms officials since the Dps Domestic mail manual prohibits mailing tobacco products to european if your Par cel has been intercepted because of the no mailable you should receive written notification from the Agency in while it is possible for a parcel to be everyone involved in mail Security goes to great lengths to prevent the Dps has inspectors monitoring its facilities to prevent theft and All personnel in the military postal service Are Well versed in the Sanctity of the mail and their responsibilities in protecting the military postal clerks go through Exten Sive training that includes classes in mail Security and they Are reminded that postal personnel can be punished for the theft of army Post office facilities and proce dures Are designed to provide efficient and secure mail mail sorting areas Are under the constant supervision of cos and Access to Apo facilities is restricted to authorized postal personnel Are not allowed to receive their mail until they go off duty so there will be no temptation to open any mail in the Post military postal supervisors responsibilities do not Stop when the mail leaves the unit mail rooms receive at least four unannounced inspections a year to ensure they Are conforming with required postal personnel Are in a position of special 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