European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 10.1bb8 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers the letter from life at 30,000feet," about Young children Fly l ing atone struck a raw nerve. I have a thing or two to say twosome of your readers. I am an Amtrak passenger train i attend and. I can t ill you How f Many limes i have Wen you Bun Lemom or grandpa aboard the train t with no further thought about the dear people. I m talking about the elderly f woman who is confused a is losing her Seal and can t remember where the is she wants to get off arid return to her Home she keeps trying to open the door of a train going 100mile an hour. I m aug talking about the old Man who stumbles out of the lavatory with his pants around his Knees. Andice one who asks for a cigarette and almost sets himself on fire when he puts the lighted cigarette in his ii rut it All unusual for a Chicago new York train to have Only one attendant assigned to care for More than 200 passengers. Lord knows we try hard to keep an Eye on the elderly travellers but we Are not police men nor arc we nurses or social workers. If it strikes you is thoughtless or abusive to sen Young children unescorted on Long journeys please aware that it is. Equally thoughtless and abusive Loump incapacitated or marginally functional people unescorted on Public would t dream of doing this to Ray Mother or fatties so Why do you Wake up out therel thanks Ann. You May use my name. Christopher Howard Chic Agodto Christopher a inn made it abundantly Ekar that train attendants i Uwi watch elderly passengers who a in Eon Petit or smite. Thanks for Utt wait up Call dear add Landers that very moving poem about the killing of a policeman tilled a part of America died was written Harry Koch. You said you did t know the author. Now thai you know please give him b., Butte Mont. Tianlu for Tine information. Please read on. Aon Landers you Are to dear to me. The poem a part of Ameri Ca died was written my aunt Henrietta who lived incas per wyo., until 1 980, when the died everyone in our family has copy fit and we Are All hopping mad. , Pittsburgh a. Deir Haj cd Happy to give your anal credit it Yon will Send me some proof. The get letter Iho old of interest to you. Dear Ann Landers i composed the poem a fart of America i sent it to the chief of police and he had copies mad for everyone on the Force. Some officer must have sent it to a relative in North Carolina who a Uliari Zed a Richmond a. Dear Gertrude this is getting curio user and what do pm think of the next inter dear Ann Landers i am surprised that you did t know who wrote a part of America died that wonderful Singer Eddy Arnold wrote it and recorded it in 1971. The record was a big hit. Gel with it Kiddo. Carthage to. Dear Carthage i checked Wilh a record a Raven in Chicago and he said Eddy Arnold Sang the song but hurry Koch wrote i thanks to Yon and All Olsen who wrote to educate me. As of now i m Belling that Koeh we the author. Readers defend new arms pact treaty i was amazed to read the recent letter disparaging the recently signed inf treaty. Particularly distressing were this Man s references to soviet american relations we Are enemies and will remain so until one or the other no longer exists and the is a tight to the what a hopeful and positive attitude for the your Reader s remarks indicate that believes this superpower showdown is not Only the most important but the sole important Issue facing the world , this Altitude prevails in most political thinking and in All the Media. The fact that 10,000 people died of starvation today is buried on the Back pages of a paper whose headlines trumpet the sexual preferences of some second rate politician or minister. World population surges past the i billion Mark is treated As an interesting bit of trivia those of us whore comfortable while millions upon millions live in the most abject poverty and squalor. Rarely docs a Day pass without another Story nontoxic wastes or the rape and destruction of the environment and even More rare is the Day we give it so much As a second thought the world Economy because it is useless to speak of individual nations economies so intertwined and interdependent Are they stands Al the utter Brink of collapse and we avoid it with smooth talk and More deficit spending. Time is alarmingly Short. The world s problems Ore just that world problems and the solutions Are Only going to found on a world scale. Therefore it is especially sad to once again hear in overpowering Roar of me first and the heu with every one Elsel it is even More sad to realize that people like this rein the majority and fully expect things to continue As they Are without thinking what our world if any willbe like in another 20 to 30 years. Most or All of this planet s Many and pressing prob Lem. Reducing tensions Between the superpower will no suffice. We meaning both the United states and the must go to the extreme length of actually beginning to cooperate. 45 sinking recalled in reference to articles about Ibe recent sinking of passenger ship and Tanker which collided in the Philippines maybe i am wrong but to my knowledge the worst maritime disaster is the sinking of the Wilhelm gust off a German ship torpedoed a russian submarine in the Baltic sea on Jan. 31, 1945. The Wilhelm Gustl Olthai 6,000 refugees on Board and 5,100 died. Helgi Murray Gap Pingen Germany the Only danger we now face is the danger of nonmoving quickly enough. Will the inf treaty work maybe. Will other arms reductions follow maybe. Will these treaties Vio lated or ignored the parties concerned maybe. Will we even have an inhabitable world to live in i we continue blindly Down the path to our damnation without so much As an attempt Al change never. Tech. Sgt Michael c Scully Raf Alco onry in glad in reference to the Lellow tilled is inf trealy whatsit s supposed to i must say that 1 agree with a great dial of what the author presents. It is True that the soviets have been very deceptive when it comes to International agreements. This is what history teaches us and rightly so. Bui we a americans should know More than most thai a nation can change for the Buller. Don l forget our history of handling the american indians and the immense problem in the Rita of civil rights which we Are still trying to rectify today. These Are our problems and we have the right Olive with Idem Independent of outside influence. Bui i do not think that this Mokes the United slates a nation of warmongers. We have supported dictators All Over the world and have Noi hesitated to use . Troops to support them. I do not intend to make a Short glory Long but Weare nol perfect Cillick. I would like to think that All of Hij the military build up of Reagan a meant to cop the the opponents of the inf agreement Pershing it and the cruise misses were placed in Europe in response to the soviet denial to dismantle their is ios. The purpose of these american missiles has been 10force the soviets to the table to renegotiate the inf condition a condition that does t prevail a global nuclear conflict but moves the world closer to that happening. The soviets do nol recognize a limited response. Nuclear attack a Matiun s armed forces is a nuclear attack regardless of where the attack was launched couple this with the idea that the author has of the inevitability of War leaves us with an incredibly fearful do nol consider myself a soviet ii is a reality that the soviets have an undeniable history of aggression and human rights violation. 1 also however do not subscribe to the rambo mentality that seems to have swept the nation. Pershing ii has completed ils Mission. 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