European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 11 Linn Landers letter dear Ann Landers please allow me to comment on the let Ter from the woman who found that her husband was attracted to men As Well As to she was worried about what would happen to their two sons if they Learned the truth about their father in future homosexuality is a fact of it has been with us through the in All Cul Tures and at All social and economic it is not going to go so we had better try to understand we still do not know the cause of Homo some of the theories Are reason Able and Many Are whether it is a result of environment or heredity or one thing is Clear homosexuals do not cause their own they Are either born that Way or Are folded Early in life by circumstances Over which they have no con As in the Case of the Hus band it does not surface until when the veneer of social pressure to conform has worn we will never know How Many happily or unhappily married Public frigid truck Drivers and countless others Are attracted to members of their own you May be that there is a Good percentage of the population forced by society to remain in the we will never know How Many cases of Alco heart divorces have been caused by the suppression of the love that dare not speak its in dear in thank you for a Good it is factually Correct and i am pleased to print dear Ann Landers i am enclosing something that appeared in one of your columns Many years with so much child abuse surfacing and remedies being i feel it would be a Good idea to print it it should be used As a daily reminder that children Are Little people who need love and Michigan Mother of 4 dear Mother the essay you asked for was written by Marjorie she is the author of Many excellent this piece appeared in you and i and yesterday published by a prayer for Cross mothers of i was so Cross to the children today forgive i was discouraged and tired and took it out on forgive my bad my and most of my i am so ashamed As i think of i want to Kneel Down by each of their Wake them up and ask them to forgive but i they  i must go on living with the memory of this awful my unjust to hours i can still see the fear in their eyes As they scurried try ing to appease me thinking my anger and maniacal raving was their of the pathetic helplessness of children their innocence before the awful monster the enraged adult and How forgiving they hugging me so fervently at kissing me All i can do is straighten a touch a Small head burrowed in a Pillow and Hope with All my heart that they will forgive in failing these Little ones whom you have put in my i am failing please let your infinite patience and goodness replenish me for c news 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 no sadder but Wiser about booze and driving in submitting this to your column in Hopes of reaching anyone who might find themselves in the situation i was first of in the drug and alcohol abuse no for my this is a Posi Tion i was appointed to around june 22 of this our Community has a summer sense Campaign going on to combat Drunken it has received much and no one can say they Are not aware of so Here i 43 Days in Only had my Pov License for three and i get caught by the German police for guess what it started out like any other i got up did my usual errands and then visited my next door while talking with him i had a later that afternoon i joined up with another no from my unit and a couple of his we were going out on the town that and because i was known not to be a heavy Drinker i was nominated to do the we departed went to two or three and then returned to my friends there i was fixed a Vodka and the amount of Vodka opposed to Coke is but it was enough to get me feeling we headed out again to do the because of very few parking spaces being available i had to Park a Block from the in a Small Side when i left for Good i decided to take a cab Home and pick up my car while walking to the taxi stand i noticed that the once lighted area where my car was parked was now completely a half Block Down the Street was a main Street and it was Well i was soon to find out that i was i backed my car out of its drove the half made a right and parked on the Corner behind a Black i got locked my door and headed for the taxi i had gotten to the other Side of the Street when i heard two car doors slam and two men ran up to they were the occupants of the Black and guess they were German they had me blow into an instrument that showed my alcohol Content to be kind of Scot for him i was then taken to a German Hospital where blood was later i was to find out that the Bat was measured at while waiting at the police station to be picked up by authorities i talked with the German police he looked Over the report and conceded that his offi cers indicated that i was on my Way to take a taxi but he it Doest mat Ter if you moved your car three inches or 300 you were still As you americans the Road to hell is paved with Good his words to this i wish he was one German who had never Learned to speak but his words were so Here i less than two months in located at a Remote site with no facilities and my wife on her Way no an article reduction and a general officer letter of reprimand to look Forward and in on my last enlist ment before career Long Ca reer i have thought Long and hard about writ German looking for Wii buddy shortly after the last shots of Wii were fired and the smoke had a Small army unit moved in across the Street from our House at further Strasse 30 in Merlenbach in the Odenwald i was 4 years and like other children fascinated by the americans who were housed in the Gruene Baum Gasthaus which they turned into a dance Hall in the above All i remember a Young Black sol Dier whom my and i called through soon befriended our parents and As Long As the americans were stationed there was a constant flow of groceries and candies to our Only a German can Tell you what that meant in 1946 the lean the years of bartering furniture and family heirlooms for a bag of a Pound of the americans moved on and times inevitably got better but my sister and i never forgot Alexander although he could not have been stationed there very while going through the papers of my parents who Are now i discovered a photograph that my father must have it shows Alexander holding me and my 8yearold sister standing in the i would like to find Alexander to thank him and Tell him what his kindness meant to me personally and How it has shaped my own thinking of America to this maybe theres somebody out there that can help me locate Laier further Strasse 30 6942 Merlenbach pen pals Alexander and friends please publish my name in your penal i am 23 years old and a social my hobbles Are listening to writing and Dela Cruz philippine National red Cross cot Abato chapter cot Abato Philippines i am a 28yearold radio operator who would like pen my hobbles Are outings and strumming the ten Leo pcs shipping jote urn cot Abato Philippines ing this i discussed it with my wife and daughter Back in the we All if it prevents just one Guy in Europe from getting a just saves one military just eliminates one Dpi Accident fatality it will be Worth there Are those out there who will say this letter is not that it is just a part of the summer sense that in doing this for less severe punishment or this is part of my acc to those people All i can say is that you arc the ones who will continue to drive take a number and stand in the German police or the maps will get to you he who forgets the past is Des tined to repeat 1 will remember this the rest of my Here Are some tips for you who do when you go out and even think you have had too much to drink Call a cab from inside the Only go outside to get in the lose your give them to a to the bartender if you know him or just Plain throw them in the nearest avoid your car like it has if it is parked North of the you walk South when when some people drink too much they forget forget you even have a last but not As the summer sense slogan goes if you drink dont drive if you dont even with Good i Learned my lesson the hard to you who now drink and heed my let me be the last service member caught in Germany the slurs Anda tripes european edition capt Dale us editor in chief cmdr Jeffrey us Deputy editor in chief Blackwell Proctor Mcdermott production manager managing 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 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