European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 12, 1936 the stars and stripes Anri Landers dear Ann Landers the worst thing thai can Hap pen to children is 10 have heir parents gel a divorce. La makes kids want to fall to the ground and die. When people ask Why you changed schools or Why your mom and dad Aren t at the baseball game it is agony to try to think of a sensible answer. Part nil always say they would never do anything to Hurt their children Bat no physical abuse can be As bad m the pain of having parents a plot Why cant they understand our feeling we cry to our friends. We cry to our Brothers and listen. We cry to our pets. We even beg our parents to change their minds. They say we Are Loo Young to understand. We remember All the nights when we Beard those terrible arguments. Why would married people say such awful things to each other we try to Block out the fighting but it s impossible. If they Bate each other to much Why did they get married b it possible to go from love to Lute it makes us afraid to gel married. It s not cur for us to Haw to change schools and lose our friends. Don t they see what Urey do to oar lives when they break up the family it hurts something awful i know because it s happening to my Brothers and sister and to me right now. No name just a girl age 12" dear pm i m a far my m i Hope tie oat Tetter win kelp Yap of Enow a Etler site of the torn. Plena Mihaic it with j9uf Hiven Aad Steric Ovdear Ann Landers every Dow and then we see an unhappily married couple who stayed together for the i have been wanting to write this letter Tor a Long time. Today i am doing it. My parents with celebrate their Solh wedding anniversary next year. None of their five children has Ever acknowledged their parents wedding anniversaries be cause it would have been so phony. Our Mother is a bitter and reclusive woman with a Martyr Complex. Our father is an unpleasant alcoholic with a mean Mouth and a Rotten temper. Every one of us kids was messed up because we never Learned now to develop positive relationships until we reached our 30s. We have All experienced failed marriages and had other tumbles in our lives. Each of us a engaged in an ongoing struggle to erase the tape of the destructive and awful behaviour of our parents so we will not emulate them. It has t been easy. 1 am writing to Tell All parents who Are consid ering staying together for the children s Sake to forget it. You Mil do them no favors. . Portland . Flunks for the powerful testimony. I am sure your utter was Art a easy one to Wita. I at j1effort, a we Many rat fun we Are pm Taw Tew abort Effort should be made to save the troubled mar Cut Tea tit to wheat grinding ski be if ass Dijon to Dndr Nehf b u scr to. Is Law Thor s Neo Rafa Aad att Star. Oat a lined letters but we will my request and Pratt of your privacy. A Lettera Are Tukaj Euttu editing. Umman whom can one k. Parr Tsoh us Chhe Page 11 letters writer can t get Vasectomy appointment i was prompted 10 write Afler i read the letter concerning the writer s frustration in using the phone sys tem to make appointments at Wiesbaden regional medical Center. She stated that she had spent months trying to get a follow up appointment for her 18-month-old daughter and when she finally got through All the appointments were taken. Let me Tell you about my situation. My wife gave birth to our second child last year. It was our decision to Stop having More children. So i called the Central appointment desk to make an appointment for a Vasectomy. This Type of surgery i considered try priority and so Only a few slots Are open in any Given month. This is How it works. Let s say that there Are four fridays in july. If you wish to make an appointment for july 11 then you Nave to Call the Central appoint ment desk on june 11. There Are Only three slots open. Now enter the ets system. By the time i gel through to make the appointment All the slots Are taken. It has been 14 months since our baby was bom Andi have been trying since then to make an appointment. In the reply to the previous letter. Col. Martin repeated three times to Contact the patient affairs office and they would help her secure an appointment. So i called patient affair and explained my sad Story. Their response there is nothing that we can do. i asked if there were any other ways to resolve this problem. Yes there Are three they responded. First you can go to the German Hospital. If you have them do it champs will not pay and what s More important they May Noi do the operation correctly and certain problems May result from the operation. Second you can have the operation done at 97th general Hospital in Frankfurt. But they Tell me they will not Dythe surgery. And third you can keep phoning. My Point is this the phone system is so poor that Here should be another Way for people to schedule appointment. If patient affairs worked the Way explained that would a the most logical Solu Sec in arc is an unfair advantage by using the phone by slim exclusively. Those who work at the hos Pital or who Are in the same ets code have a far Betl Archance of getting through As opposed to those of us who have to use the phoning la Wiesbaden editor s note col. Keith w. Curtis Deputy health semen administration office of the surgeon Hausfe a splits we appreciate the frustration experienced by this Wriler. All of us have Al one time or another encountered problems in dealing with our collective Telephone late 1987, the Wiesbaden air Force regional medial Center ii along a Tab Jato by As Schmed to Coltart a the Earp in Tele Phoa system ets. This com Unity a adv Telephone Lyile i Fatwa Alfe Riale Rainy of inc Prabel tit currently . Hilll ets installation pleats will bore Lon Ike existing phone system or Nottjr write to tie Central in Poui mkt de a at a rec am pm enl actin Apo 09110 asking for the first available be very concerned about the met Guex Tut a redrew dulse of the a rec w Cay Blu medical facility would Auk the remaily concern a to add Oacy of Tret meal on the Economy. Tien m procedure established Al each medical facility far a inti a Calento use in the event he or she feel out � Moons fam a Scad member i inadequate or i Minfu. The Miter is encouraged nuke u appointment will the Wpm patient complaint officer to Dlf Coss this tug of i. Finally concerning the Basic reason for Ihbe response the availability and number of appointments for Dasecta Mies Are limited. A taint Exettie Only in thai , beginning in july the number of a poll nuts a increased ran fan per week to Nate per week. The in incr of appointments say vary Luct phys Ken lure and directed temporary try Tough anti terrorist stand wins support this is with reference to the letter urging Unity against terrorism. 1 could t agree with him More about taking a Tough stand against those who resort to terrorism. Like him 1 am against terrorism of All kinds regardless of the source whether it is backed by the libyans the red army the Ira or the contras backed by our tax dollars. I believe that America is really the land of the free and fed lorry for those who live under totalitarian regimes like the soviet Union and Cuba. 1 also sympathize with people who have bad to live under repressive authoritarian dictators and who still live under them. Have we always been dedicated to the principles that made our country free the writer assumes that Whai s right and what s in our nation s Best interest Are synonymous. History will Tell i that what s right has not always been perceived by our notion s leaders As being in our Best interest and what s in our nation s Best interest is not always morally right. Have we been guilty of supporting authoritarian dictators in the past do the people of these co Unnes have a right to speak out against our government just As we speak out against the soviet Union and South Africa have we always been dedicated to the principles that made our country free Are the majority of people in Iran better off under the Ayatollah than they hereunder the Shah do the cubans and nicaraguans have a better Standard of life under Castro and Ortega than under Batista and Samoza Are they any worse off did the people of the Philippines enjoy full Freedom under Marcos do the people of Haiti miss the Duvalier As a superpower have we played any role in the Rise and fall of governments if so Al what Cost in terms of lives and Money do the people involved have a right to applaud or criticize our policies if we Are unhappy to read and hear criticism of our government we have two choices 1. Turn off the to and Don t read anything we Don t want to know.2. 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