European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 14, 1989 the stars and stripes aim Landers dear Ann Landers after having been .1 nurse in geriatrics for 20 year i wrote a make believe letter that is very close to being a real one in fact in could have been written by any one of the dozens of people i have cared for in the Post two decades. Please print a cart Gina wife husband son daughter brother sister of i m Tony you Hae 10 go through hit unite Mnew Day. And i regret thai i am j the cause of it t hate nor being Able i do so Many things for myself. It s an fill to be totally dependent on someone else. I feel ashamed that i can t go to the bathroom on Myown. It s frustrating to of fed by another person. / m absolutely disgusted that am unable to get a tissue Pula my lace so i can won my nose. Being old and helpless is much Vona than any illness or disability. I does in Tigi to one s feelings ofic tonal Worth. Worst of All is knowing How you hate being my caregiver i see the inc Mmel r n your eyes and i Kcjr in in your Roice. I know that deep Down you Wiki i uvula die and gel in Oicer Ith so you can get on with your life and not be Bolti Cpl with me. I have no Choice Ritonen a but to live out the years thai have been allotted to it. I m sorry that the Job of caring for me has fallen on your shoulders. I womb r h bit of us carries the gift Sci rfcs Niagara Falls Dot no or Falls Yon new Bill cd " letter is to real that ii Bronchi tears to my Els. I remember so w etl How my dear Mother and her sister took care of their elderly father and � hut a demanding Job in no. I m sure a Greal Ninny Pei tale can rutile to what you have written not nah the elderly who fed that i Hare outlived their Usi Iii lne. And Are ready logo but their caretakers who feel guilty fur wishing they uld be free of hem. Whit irony Hal so Many people would she anything for a few Mare Yean of life Hulle Olhan Are granted years that they neither want nor enjoy. More eld tree that life can be unfair. Dear Ann Landers i am 25. My husband is 32. We have been married three years. Lee is wonderful in almost every Way we Are starting our own business and things arc going Well. The future tools a unlit. Ith one exception. A few weeks after a returned from our Honey Moon. Lee suggested that have an open marriage. Idin t even know Tui the irm meant lie explained that couples get along much belter when they give one another Freedom. I us shocked when he suggested that we switch partners through a swingers club. Reluctantly i agreed although it sounded very far out if not downright weird. 1 did not enjoy my first experience and told Lee that if he wanted to swing to go ahead but i d just As soon not he said singles arc not allowed. It has to be both parties or nothing and he wanted to continue. Ann i hate these get together. I am afraid of acquiring aids and lord knows what else. To Pul in bluntly i do not enjoy i w i in slim Gorc. 1 feel cheap and dirty after these encounters and need to know if i am really Square and crazy Ai Lac says or what eld me. Jacksonville Fla. Dor Jacksonville your husband funds like four door Bonsi placed crw. Tel him that you Art through winging and if he tint you Are gain to we a lawyer. Then do it. Belter to be inc shut with i in red Horld class Weirdo. Page 11 letters reasoning on Toshiba ban questioned what i would like to discuss is the recently enacted legislation that will prevent servicemen Iberl from being Able to gel the most value for their Dollar when buying costumer electronics equipment according to consumer reports March 19b7, to Shiba makes the most reliable to in the world. Con Sumer reports scored the to below Sony and quasar an performance although Toshiba Wai much lower i Price. Consumer reports also gives Good or better rat Ings to other Toshiba products. From my experience feel thai Toshiba makes the Best Var and microwave considering Price reliability performance Etc. Many people with whom i have talked fell the lame Way. Congress has decided that because a subsidiary of Toshiba corp. Told some machinery to the that is capable of making quieter submarine props no More Toshiba products would be sold in military exchanges or commissaries starting in March 1988. This appears to be a knee Jerk response by Congress to special interest groups probably other manufacturers of consumer electronics who can t stand the com petition Toshiba is giving them in the very lucrative military Exchange Market place. It seems to me to be asinine to punish Toshiba electronics for something done by a completely separate company under the corporate umbrella not to men Tion denying the the Best value for his Loo generous i percent pay raise. Meanwhile i have seen no Public outcry or condemnation sponsored by Congress against the norwegian government As they did against Toshiba products in the United Stales. I guess watching someone in Cleve land Ohio smashing cans or sardines in Mustard sauce with a fire a is just not As dramatic As having mime member of congeal Bash in a to with a Sledge Hammer on the Capitol Lawn nor would it gamer As Many votes. Norway is a member of nato. The government of Norway own the company Kongsberg Papen Fabrik thai sold the computers to the , that Are needed to control the machinery to Shiba sold. This is Clear violation by the government of Norway of anti technology Transfer agreements be tween the United Stales and All nato members. Without the computers the machinery could not Mill flour much less submarine props. The norwegian defense ministry should be Able to keep track of what a major weapons company which it owns is doing. Congress seems to have ignored this Issue in its deliberations to Lough. 1 wonder Why they did nol choose to hold the government of a nato partner to the same or higher standards As they did a japanese company which is Najt a part of nato come on Congress you gave yourselves three pay raises in 1987, so give the go a break. Rescind this idiotic Law before March. That Way when the service member does decide to spend some of his huge 2 per cent raise he will eel something for his Money. Or. Jerk your collective knee one More Lime and forbid commissaries and exchanges to sell norwegian smoke baby oysters or sardines in Mustard sauce As Well. Harold e. Castle Berlin Reader has doubts on value of boxing Well ii s time again. I hear it everywhere. Boxing boxing boxing. You see it in this flier and that one. Newspapers and even on to sometimes it s even humorous like when they Lell you about a boxing event at this location and that one then right after Hal you see a commercial about How smoking is bad for your health and How the army does not want you to do dumb things like smote. I love in. Of jesting aside let s see if 1 have got this right. Doling is Good for you. Good for them boxers Anil Good for the army. C Man commanders this sport i for the sole purpose of the knocking the brains out of your opponents head with one s fists. The object is quite Clear when the Boxer Steps into pen pals i film Kilerl inf m lining pan pal thru Ufa to stir a i hav Virad Motiu that Elud i la. Mute. C to. In Lett and i. Etc Muaava Mohur Pratali . 33x61 Btu of Trail sit Ihn Oty ppr non i Wuu la pen a i Omoth i pm run myon4 How Kew to writ i in x pm cd m pm Wurt to Pia Fig a in a. Photo Griph to Quiri a Rotl Porti. 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