European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 30, 1986 the stars and stripes Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i Hope you find space for this let Ter. It n addressed to All the 20-year-old women who think their wonderful adoring guv will standby them no matter what. Yester Day 1 found out i am pregnant sitting in that Elitc was the longest 10 minute of my lire. When the nurse opened the door guessed the answer by the look on her Bee. I dreaded letting Ray Boyfriend but i knew i bad to. That evening when he came Over for supper i Laid him the moment he Iai Down on the coach. Hij response stunned me. That i the Abw tute pits. Now what Are you going 10 Dor i never Felt so alone and afraid in and my Eft. Not even a hug or a word of concern. You realty must be stupid he yelled i ibis Day and age to let Loch think happen. Well it s not going to ruin Ray life. I have big plans for  i just Hood there in Shock when he said ill pay for half of the abortion but it s All Over Between in. Send me the Bill then he left. I invent decided what i m going to do but i knowhow my never make that mistake again. I trusted Loo much and assumed my sweetheart cared As much forme As i eared for him. Wrong wrong wrong i be Learned a lot from your column. Now ii i my turn to give something Back. Please print this. Marion in Tennessee dear Marlon i base a personal theory Hitt rime wound ill  la get his somewhere along the pm. I Hope the read Era Oul there who Are candidates for your kind of trouble will team from your letter. Dear Ann Landers i d like to offer a word of support to the woman who dined alone and was treated like an object of pity by the Homes in the Ria Oral. Al acre Jansi one of Yon 1 also enjoy dining Solo. When my rms Bank and i Tatoul together i night As Well be alone. He never says on omd to me. If someone we know slops by the table fora women he suddenly becomes a Stinzi Liting conversationalist in act he rattles on and of until it i embarrassing. What Barm me up is Ibet when 1 Dine alone the me who m Feo unaccompanied assume i am looking for company. Even though i Avail Eye Contact i an suspected of being on the  i would like to Start a restaurant for women Only but people would think it was for indians women who believe they have come a Keg Way Are kidding then Selts. Everything that happens in Tab country u listed to favor the male. Please Don t print my name. I be go enough problems already ahoo Stepwith a Point of View Page 11 letters Yew Hare a Point of View All right. And even though Iff Nawir Crancil hunks fore Presslar it. De Rannel Oderr a Mother in Longview wrote about her five children who resembled no one in her family i had a similar problem with my two. When someone would say they Don t look any thing Tike their father do they i d answer no but they Don t look anything like me either do they the Dumbbell were speechless Azinger from Honolulu deviate a Snappy Kyj Ziwier. Jut what at rms deserve. Writers comment on purple heart awards this is is reference to the nodes on the recipients of the purple heart who were injured at the la Bebe disco though i do no approve of the terror tit bombing of the Chib itself and action should be taken against the pencils thai did indeed kill and injure people at the Dob awarding purple hearts to those individuals wan a mockery against these soldiers who lost their lives and limbs being the enemy in a combat zone. I realize Berlin is an occupied City and indeed full of politics Ira the actions of awarding purple hearts to those soldiers was a waste of my tax Money. If you wanted to award them something Why of a free pass on the town those Young men have probably never even teen a combat zone there s a big difference Betm ii a homemade bomb and a surface to air Nissie coming at you. My in Anata dab column u land Turni that Sun n Art at to Start ird no Apo ob211. . Man Heliin. Where Are the purple hearts for the Navy Man who was shot by terrorists on the hijacked Twa Light the army Soldier who was killed last year by members of the so Calvd red army faction the two air Force pilots who were shot Down doing their Job on Libya or the marines in Lebanon who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong Lime i m More than positive these individuals were no putting a few cold ones away and dancing until two or three in the  about the people who arc prudent enough to keep their families away from he obvious place during a crisis it realty saddens me to see people die for our coun try and not receive a purple Cleart. But in upsets the Heck out of me to see people receive this distinguished medal who were in no Way shape or form defending the United slates or opposing the enemy. . Robinson go Pingen Germany totally do not understand How the United states army could give a medal such As the purple hear twosome people who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong Lime it s unfortunate terrorists picked this disco to bomb but i Don t see How this constitutes being wounded i combat thu deserving of a purple heart. The purple heart medal has a history of being awarded to Brave Sot Diefin who made heroic contributions during combat there s a great Story behind the efforts these Brave soldiers made. Name withheld beitin1 have a treat Deal of respect for the military and its awards and medals but 1 hardly consider being at disco As being on duty or some son of military int Jsam. I am an air Force member stationed in Athens Greece in a 1935 bombing Here at a local bar 1 know for a tact that several people were severely , too were basically in the same situation and not one of them received the purple heart or another Type of medal. Being overseas we Are All subject to terrorist activity at All limes so Why not give it to All Active duty members who Are stationed overseas name withheld Hellen Lluhi a Greece you quoted la Gen. Andrew p. Chambers As saying that the Berlin disco victims were heros just As much a those who have received the medal in the past. Question which of he following has More significance in the role that a Soldier plays in the defense of his other country a. A Soldier who nun while drinking and danc ing with Friend during off duty hours in a place where they wanted to be. Or b. A Soldier who aids two wounded Friend. He gels the first to safely and in going after the second Soldier is also wounded but goes on anyway and upon reaching the second Soldier finds that he is Toolate and that he n already dead. Bui even knowing thai it is too late brings him Back in medevac and i again ecu isted i n the process during my two hours of duly in Vietnam 28 of my friends lost their lives. The Point about being at War with terrorists invalid but it has no Merit Wuen. Weighed against death in actual combat.1 eel sorry for the soldiers who were Hun in Berlin just As i feet sorry for the marines who died in Beirut and All the other victims and their families. But the real Issue Here is Don t Tell me that my 28 dead friends Are not in fact greater heroes. The toss of life i combat has greater significance than the tens of Tood in peacetime. In the general s attempt to Comfort the Berli victims he has desecrated the deaths of soldiers sail ors airmen and  warrant officer Rob so Btl Mannheim Germany the following people Niimd with most of the senti ments in the above it tres on l. Raw see . Army retired Kaiserslautern staff sol. Danny l bal lard la Firtik. Turkey Al fim. Naples Italy and James d. Nov ilk . Germany. Editor s note i. Cot. Wlliam l. Murrey. I corps Public affairs officer replies the a Tore idler is difficult to answer far Iton Rea sons first the writer dots at know Whai via actually said by it. Gen. Chamber at the awards a Minny and second the writer Lias made an unnecessary com Parison of soldiers serving their country during Dif Ferent periods. The record must first in set Sara Gai. As to vital . Gen. Chambers actually said. His words were the Fine soldiers serving in Europe today Are All heroes in every sense of the word Fie a As not saying today s Soldier is and More or less Brave courageous or Reso turf than soldiers in the past. In executive order 12464. The president of the United states Auto Tori Ediht awarding Afir purple heart to those wounded. As a Renft of Art inter National terrorist  la. Gift. Fid Tim was making the awards on he Giaffo tie president. He Aid not desecrate put Dawn or slap in to Trace any Soldier past or present win died or was Koi ended while serving in Chr defense of the untied states. Entry a flier is crucial o thai defense Writt Ter he or she is serving in Berlin or somewhere else. To it. Gen. Chambers they Are  regard to the people who feel that or. Reagan is giving away the purple heart like Popcorn. I am saddened to read in the paper and hear negative comments from my military friends us americans feel towards out own people. I have told some of the enlisted people thai i work with thai if i had been injured in the disco bombed in Berlin 1 would want the purple heart. I reminded these people that if they had been the wounded a tier that they too would feel that they deserved the  Are All Here to defend our country. Would those soldiers have beet injured by a terrorist bomb ing in the mud states because they were in Berlin defending out Constitution did our Freedom the were the unfortunate victims of a Karat it Atuck. These people should know that according to army regulation 672-5-1. Military awards in table 2-1, ii states that the purple heart is awarded for heroism for wounds received in combat for War and peace. Note 6 adds Aba awarded to military personnel wounded by terrorists or while members of a peacekeeping Fote. 1 want to say that people should do Little Wadig before titty begin to criticize or. Reagan. Be is Only paying tribute to those in Nocell Tolkien who wounded by terrorists. Spec i doom g. 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