European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday december 23, 1985 the stars and stripes Anri Landers Page 11 letters dear Ann Landers i was interested in that column about Rock music and How parents were upset by the dirty lyrics. According to the Wall Street journal noise Levels might produce the most damage. It is my belief that pc the younger Genera f. Lion has gone bananas. Diane Petzko reports that junk Rock also known As Industrial music is produced by scrap Metal car parts and air conditioning ducts rather than by guitars and Drums. Any object that can be made to Emit a sound when coaxed with an aluminium pipe a Lead Mallet or a Power Drill qualifies. And if the sound is reminiscent of a garbage truck at 5 a.m., this is intentional. One group uses a pneumatic Drill that screeches like several thousand Long fingernails dragged across a chalkboard. Then one hears the slamming of a drum pedal against a 500-gallon storage tank. A Skinny Young Man screams in German amid a col Lection of dented car doors a Cement mixer and a refrigerator scavenged for the Occa Sion ready to be banged drilled and scraped. A Milwaukee group called boy dirt car uses junkyard items or special sound effects in a record album called it was recorded beneath an underpass in an old brewery. Machine age voodoo uses air plane wings crushed Glass in Mosquito netting and a Shotgun. If All this does t add up to iss Ner Vous breakdown and the disc cration of everything sacred in the world of music i miss my guess. No signature just disgusted a father in Rhode Island dear Rhode Island Cool it dad. This Loo shall pass. Let us Hope in does t produce a few million deaf kids in the process. Aside from the bearing loss 1 see no danger of mistaking this trash for music Long enough to make an Impact on anyone. Dear Ann Landers you have stood up for the disadvantaged and misunderstood Many limes. I Hope you will do so once again and print my letter. So often we pity the poor i d like to say something on behalf of the poor Divorcee. After 18 years of marriage i was traded in for a hotel clerk by my truck Driver husband. The girl is half his age. I was left with two children one with a psychological problem plenty of Bills half his prop erty which was not much and plenty of recently two of my close friends lost their husbands. They were left with life insurance pensions paid off Homes and cars and no sex husband to Deal with. The widow gets the respect and Condo Lences of the Community. The Divorcee gets questions such As i wonder Why she could t hang on to this might sound cruel but i d like to say a word to the widows who read this a . Dear Toledo obviously you Are bitter and maybe you have a right to be but a great Many widows Are not going to appreciate being told How Lucky they Are. The proper wearing of the s Brown sweater i have not been Able to find anything in the available copies of 670-1 regarding the wearing of the Brown sweater. So i would appreciate if someone could give some an Swers detailing the proper use of it. The Normal Way to Wear this sweater is under the Blu shirt. Is it proper to Wear the sweater with the of Green fatigues which can still be worn for another year ? also in certain conditions such As our operations areas in Gablinger Cavern Sec Tion supervisors can authorize personnel to take off their fatigue jackets for More com fort while working. If a Soldier is also Wear ing the Brown sweater must that also be removed or can it be left on while the sol Dier remains in his working area where re Moval of the fatigue jacket is authorized i have been told that the sweater is not an outer garment under any circumstances but others have said that if a Soldier can take off his fatigue jacket he would be wearing an undershirt which is also not an outer garment outside the working area. Who is right also Here at Gablinger i have observed air Force personnel wearing the Brown sweater As an outer garment Over the com plete air Force of fatigue uniform. Does the air Force have a similar looking sweater and is this the proper Way to Wear in i was under the impression that the Brown sweater was an Ilam of uniform for Only. No one around Here seems to know what the air Force has stipulated regarding this. Also i have noticed that the Augsburg military clothing sales store now is Selling German Mountain boots. Are these authorized for Wear with the uniform 1 Don t want to Lay out j50 for a pair Only to find out that i and All the commissioned concern Over immunization guns i am writing this letter in regard to the National concern Over aids. It is now once again flu season and in Accord with All military regulations All service members Are required to get flu shots. Always in the Oast the military has used the shot gun to give flu Skou to thousands of soldiers using the Samo Needle. One of the methods by which aids is transmitted is through contaminated Needles. In the interest of not spreading the Dis ease could you ask your medical authorities if they Are going to Start using separate Needles to give the flu shots or Are we All going to be exposed to the chances of get Ting aids name and location withheld editor s note col. Michael w. Benenson chief preventive Medicine 7th medical come replies it is easy to see Why people might be concerned about the possible transmission of aids when the Jet injector is used in the flu immunization program. It a True that intravenous drug users arc at a great artak of getting aids if they share Needles with other persons who might have the disease. There Are a number of diseases that can be transmitted by sharing Needles these include hepatitis b and malaria. The Jet gun is so useful because it does not have a Needle. The material to be injected is forced through the skin by compressed air making a Needle unnecessary. Thus there is no Needle that goes from one person to the next. In this Way. Large numbers of persons can be immunized quickly with Little discomfort. Needle stick transmission refers to health care workers being accidentally stuck with a Needle that was used in a person with a disease and the disease being transmitted to the health care worker. Accidental Needle Sticks occur fairly frequently and hepatitis b is transmitted in this Way. Although a Large number of health care workers have been stuck with Needles that had been used in aids patients there arc Only three cases where transmission might have occurred in this Way. As we gain experience with aids it is becoming Clear that the disease is transmitted by sexual Contact and clearly not by casual Contact. It is also becoming obvious that even by Needle Sticks or Small amounts of blood the disease is not very Well transmitted. Ii b important that people practice Good personal Hygiene not because of aids but because of a number of potentially serious infections that arc transmitted person to person. Aids is predominantly a sexually transmitted disease and the nay to protect oneself from the disease is to be careful about sexual exposure. The More different partners an individual has the greater Are the risks of getting aids. This is True for both men and women. Remember the starving he says pen pals aril a. For Nodi ind a Uii Glen paid Bou Sild this will be a sad Christmas. No not for those of us Lucky enough to have a Job and Money enough to buy food and the Basic necessities. It will be a sad Christmas for the 1,250,000 humans who will of starvation this month. But death by starvation is old news so we Don t read about it much in the newspapers any More. We us Rich westerners had our Day of sympathy. We Felt the compassion for a Short time maybe we gave a few Bucks to the red Cross or Tome other organization to Salve our consciences. We Tang songs about hunger and acted indignant for a time and then we quietly began ignoring the problem. Now we go on to other things such As the thousands who died during an earthquake. Of course while we focused on the Earth quake tens of thousands were dying of Star vation. But that s old news in t in i really can t help but wonder whether god will hold us responsible for murder. Murder by apathy. And we Call ourselves men. How can anyone be Content with the modes within which we now live when Mil Lions starve and in squalor when the Rich Parade their wealth before the poor when each Man is his neighbor s enemy when no Man trusts he brother for How Long must we live thus for How Long can we support thit degradation what in heaven s name makes any of us think that we can have a True and lasting peace on Earth As Long As people Are Hun Gry and How can we Manifest Good will to wards men who drop like flies because our precious free Enterprise system dictates th/5t we store millions of tons of Grain rather than give it to people who cannot pay hunger will not be conquered and peace will evade us until we can establish Justice in the world. There can be no Justice until we accept the principle of snaring. It s Worth repeating thai there can be no peace without sharing. The world s resources have to be shared based on need and not hoarded based on greed. So what can we do the easiest thing to do is Pray. The next easiest thing to do is write a letter to a politician. Tell the politician that we need to share. We can really help by writing several letters to politicians to friends to the Media. The most difficult thing for Tome of us to do is give. There arc a lot of organizations out there that work to distribute food and they always need Money. But writing to a politician can be the most important thing to do in fighting hunger. The world needs help on a scale that Only government can handle. And governments Only do what they arc forced to do by Public opinion. Let s save ourselves. Let s share the world s resources. A. Philip Smith Kaiserslautern Germany officers and others i have seen wearing them arc wrong. I recall a few years Back seeing a policy letter for the Augsburg military Community stating that the Wear of the German paratroop Boot with the fatigue uniform was specifically prohibited. Has the impending appearance of the new design Boot for the . Army brought these items of German footwear in conformance with . Army rugs staff sgt. Stephen f. Dellwo Augsburg Germany editor s note maj. John w. Kline leadership Branch. Office of the Deputy chief of staff personnel Liq Usa eur replies the Brown five Button sweater May be worn either with the fatigue or Battle dress uniform. The sweater is considered an undergarment and will normally Only be worn As such. However if a supervisor directs that shirts be removed in order to Complete a fatigue Type detail the sweater May be kept on. Shirts should Only be removed to climatic conditions extremely hot weather or to the arduous nature of a detail. They should not be remo de simply because it is More comfortable not to Wear the shirt. The air Force has Many items of cloth ing similar to or the same As uni forms. Their Wear is differently prescribed to he differing natures of the sen ice missions. German boots May be purchased and worn with the fatigue or Battle dress uniform. It is similar to the Arr s new Boot which should be available within this fiscal year. European edition capt Dale k. Patterson us editor in chief cmdr Jeffrey s. Zakem us Deputy editor in chief . Blackwell m. Two Chou . Mcdermott production manager managing de. Circulation manager their Ewi oar i an authorized unofficial publication for met Berj of the military Terv Icet overheat con Lett 0 the Stan end Stroei am not Necess Tiv the official a Teri of of endorsed by. The . Overr mint the department of do Futnie or the european command the appearance of advertising in thai Public Illon Rinaud ing Irneli or ii t Lement. Doet not Coll cult Emori Emoni by the department of of Tenie or the Star and sir Loti of the product or Lerv Lett Adverl lied. Everything adv a led in thit publication than be made available Tor pure Kiaie us or patronage without regard to tace Cohy reek i Tei National origin be. 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