European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february. 1988 th6 stars and stripes Page 11 Ahn Landers deaf Ann Landers of All the columns you have written the one 1 am enclosing hit me the hardest. It brought Back the worst memories of my lire. Please run it again before Valentine s Day. If 1 can spare just one child the misery i experienced As a Young Ster 1 will be a Happy woman. Thank Yon Friend. Abilene Kan. Of Abilene Here the. Column in. I m Tan that ii will be noted by a great Many teachers and year Gad will be accomplished. Dear Ann Landers thousands of children will be depressed on Valen Tine s Day. The nation s teachers will spend hours Pul Ling up heart shaped decorations and mate believe mailboxes. No thought Wilt be Given to kindness. There will be so Many disappointed children again this year. The same pretty girls and Good looking boys will receive loads of Valentines while the Plain Janes and johnnies will he left out. I am opposed to free Choice when it comes to giving Valentines in school. It creates Loo much anxiety an heartache. The teacher ought to match up Valentine couples Grid they Shoula make Valentines for each other during class time. No other Valentines should be Given it school this Way no one will be left out. My own child is pretty and popular. She told me i january that she Hales Valentine s Day because the same kids get dozens of Valentines while other kids Don t get  last year she pc a Valentine to every kid in the class. I thought it was a kind and generous thing to do. I was proud of her i Hope my letter arrives in time to make your column this year Ann. If not please run it next year. The feelings of children arc so important and he hurts go so deep. Sign me. A Mother in Dothan Ala. Dear Ann Landers recently my wife age 31 received a birthday card from my sister age is. There was a s10 Bill  yes she whole two lines and signed her name. I thought it was son at Tacky but said nothing. A week later my wife said she thought my sister had belter taste than to Send a grown woman a birthday card with a s10 Bill stuck in it i said i was t sure that it was so bad and decided to ask another sister what she thought. That sister landed on me with both feet. She yelled what s the matter was t 110 enough Are you two upset because it was t Hod inc conversation ended with me hanging up on her. I believe that for children up to College dec it is perfectly of to Send Sio for a birthday but for any one 13 and Over a Small gift is in much belter taste. Need i say. Ann Landers this matter has been blown Way out of proportion and has become a major family Issue. All members have agreed to accept you judgment in this Mailer. We respect your advice and know you will be evenhanded please respond soon. It s a mess. Tacky in Bonanza Ore. Dew Bodunu i or that a Small gift would Hare been in better am than the Sio Bill but a gift is Hal one filth and there should have been no criticism. Yen mistake my feeding the information into Ibe Funch computer. By raising the Joellon add implied Crit fam of the Glrber and that a Tacker thin the $10 Bill. Now please ids and nuke of everybody. Readers oppose Cash bonuses for fliers after Reading a recent article i be decided it s Tim for me to sit Down and voice my opinion Over some thin that really irritates me. I read where the Powers that be propose to give our flier a Bonus of $ 12.000 a year to re Clisi. This comes to an annual Cost of js5million for the air Force and the nyy requests 140 million for their tiers All this to retain our pilots. T thought the 37.4 million was supposed to retain our fliers. What will it be after Bis a new car maybe new House granted our Mission in the air Forte is primarily to Fly and fight but let s be serious j12,000 a year plus All their other Many benefits 1 guess this Means the rest of us to called Mission essential people Aren t Worth very much at All not even a Mere 4 percent pay raise. 1 Don t see the rest of us getting any incentives to stay in like that. Some ofus Don t even gel any incentives at All especially the enlisted who have it rough enough As it is. To lop All this off the big shots in Washington an making us Cut Buck on our forces because there in t enough Money to pay us All. They re cutting Many of our benefits for Lack of funding As Well. Now Ell me where do they get the funding to give our Flim these retention bonuses i believe they de serve some extras but this much i know where my Mere 4 percent pay raise went. It certainly did t gel Cut to help reduce the Federal deficit. Name withheld Tunu fein a Germany after Reading about the Pentagon proposing a Blu Nui for pilots that will Cost As taxpayers i is million each year 1 just had to write and give my two cents Worth. 1, As a taxpayer cannot condone giving each Pilot a 112,000 Bonus per year of re enlistment. If these pilots Are leaving the air Force and Navy i m sure it s not just the Money. If that were the Case there would cafes assists volunteers 1 realize you Don t have very much room in your column for thank you letters but i m hoping you la have space for a few words. Realizing a lot is often written about cafes pm like to say i appreciate a Little known moneymaker for Volunteer organizations. It is sponsored by cafes and. The Frankfurt military Community. Cafes provides All the materials and space for gift wrapping and Over seas wrap from Early november through Christmas. Volunteer organizations in Frankfurt provide Man Power and Lake All proceeds. Thank you. Cafes. Debbie Chul Kulcy Viet president Affsa Frankfurt elementary school be no armed forces. The pilots officers Are already Over paid. It Cost s6 million to train one Pilot now Hen will be a 170,000 Bonus for six year enlistment this is Piliu their regu Lar salary. This is just a waste of Dollare and could be used Tor a 10 percent raise military wide instead of Lousy z percent. When you Start looking pilots Are a very Small minority of the air Force and Navy. Where would they be without the mechanics Security police civil Engi neers Etc. Nowhere Juil lilting in their planes feeling pompous. Don t misunderstand me i know they Are important and i accept that. I just feel that if they pilots keep gelling preferential treatment then soon there willbe none to maintain the plane. The government is showing All the lower military just How much they think we Are Worth a 2 percent raise smallest since the 60s1100 leather jackets to raise the pilots egos costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and now 1125 million each year on bonuses. Thai s some Price lag to Rait an ego. I personally Don t want my lax Dollar going to a already Over inflated ego. I would prefer it to to to wards a substantial military raise or More importantly to help the homeless hungry poverty Ridden Amer ican that the government 10 easily sweeps under the Rug to join the other  withheld a in a Germany wife hoping she can stay i m writing you As a concerned family member Sia toned in Germany with my husband who is on a 36 month tour. It is my Hope that the Mark Dollar rate will Sec its Way up the ladder. With so Many families living on the Economy trying to survive what s going to happen if our Dollar keeps on decreasing at the Rale that it is Many families will be forced to return to the United states. It s not my desire to do so. It worries me be cause i be fought w Long to come Over Here and join my husband from the states. Now i m angry worried and upset hat i will have to Jeave even though i know my folks will have me Back Wilh open arms. But i Don t want to leave my husband. It s the Sepa ration that would do More harm than anything. When i married my husband Over 13 months ago i knew that we were in this together. What do i Tell my daughter who s just getting to know her father All Over again it s my nope and in my prayer that we who believe in our country so strongly will be Given a Chance. I find that Many families have to have two working to just stay alive. A. Spencer Stuttgart pen pals err Upland with nope of any to front if que. 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