European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday april 16,1988 the stars and stripes Sagall Anil Landers dear Ann Landers i Nad this letter in the mus Kogee okla daily Phoenix and thought perhaps you might be interested in sharing in with your readers. I saw myself and i la bet others will see them selves too. Long time Reader Dor Long time a hunks for to song the letter a my Way. There i something to Tot f Learned from yer Story and i m f pleased to snare it. Take heed fellow fools i am a a veg my to Hai spent the last men years going to jail to jail or jetting a a full my d4 told be when i lust started to Stow sign of rebellion my rebel lion a of tame Kmart my nutes school or anyone in authority hut i should Rod in Meta the Wisdom of Solomon of course i laughed clog a fool age 16i considered my dad an old fogey Ai time went on i became an Eren bigger col Ftp Kef log if to one Jam after another. My dad ild i hid to learn discipline and sooner or later i would learn it. In he Amy or in prison. Again i laughed. 1 had done wok experimenting Irith a cohort and Dregs pet add and pc and we dotted up a lot i made it i brooch High school a Miracle a flunked out of College and finally went into the army. My know it All attitude got me Cut Home in less than six months with on honorable discharge. Another Mira Cle i got into trouble with the Law and was Lucky again. I Gol Iff on probation by Iblis time t was 19 years of an adult fool and � know it All by the time i was 20, i got into another Rares bigger this time and the judge gave me 11 Yean. I m to or bowl now with Guys who May Hare aids Coati in the Days until i can get oat of Here and make some kind b life for myself. The Point i want to make is this own if Yon Don t a pm with your parents listen to hero. They Hue been your age Bat you hate Neier been theirs. If Yon Moke a mistake Don t try to lie on of it. Take the consequent a. When people who care about Yon Tell you something listen to them. I now realize i was wrong about All the important things. If i Kotiw lire my life Orer i d son do things differently. If Jot one person learns something from this letter i will have done some Good in the world. Laugh if you want to but who is the joke on when Yon we aside looting out or just looking because you re in former fool in Lexington dear Ann Landers please Tell your readers hat when they Tisdial to say i be readied Ine wrong number or at least i m re car wrong number said of my 5od" and Hung up. Mom was tip All night worrying. Which one of us had called or was it a wrong number she did t want to phone in at that hour and ask 90 she wailed until morning. By then she was a wreck. If that caller had just said sorry wrong number it would have saved a Mother from suffering through an awful night. It s such a simple thing and requires Only a few seconds of your Lime. Maryland dear Maryland a lol of the damage done in this world is Doe to ignorance not malice. Yon Hare educated millions today by staring Jour Story thank Yon. It s giving not getting that counts when i read the letter about the students at la Maddalena elementary school who did not receive answers to the letters they wrote to servicemen in the persian Gulf a number of thought went through my mind. First of All 1 wondered what we Are teaching Oor students. Did these kids while to cheer up the men in the Golf at Christmas or to receive answers Christmas should be s time of giving with no though about what we arc going to get in return. Secondly what have you done for these people since Christmas i m sure that they like those in nursing Homes hospitals and orphanages were deluged with cookies tellers and cards at Christmas but live received very Little notice since then. The men aboard the ships in the persian Gulf work Long and Bard. They Are often called on to work 18 hour Days and their sleep is interrupted by Calls to general quartets haul stations on an almost nightly they Are sent to the Middle East for Ai Long As a year at a time with Only one Home leave during that period. This Means that Many Don t get to see Newborn Chil Dren until they Are 6 months old. Shore leave is in Short Supply and when they do get to leave the ship it is in a very restricted Middle East environment which can also be expensive. The students in my Reading classes began writing american sailors in the Gulf in october just to Ted them that we appreciate diem and the sacrifices that they Are making to keep the world Safe. We did not expect any answers but we were surprised by the responses that we got. The chaplain on the command ship la Snelle had Pul our cards and letters on the ship s bulletin Board and Many sailors look the time loan ser them. Since then we have carried on a Heady err Epson now you be been Toad in a recent Issue under the photo of a Road sign which read padd Entrek the caption said that in was one of Many Frog cresting Points in Holland. A fad plural Paddon in dutch is not a Frog it s a Toad. Frogs have smooth skin and live in and out of water. Toads have a rough warty skin and live most of he year on land. In is Only in the springtime when their thoughts turn to what else thai toads seek out water where the female will Lay her eggs. Whenever you Sec a Paddy Alrek sin in Means that loads Cross there in Large numbers in the Breeding season. I Hope that the above Wilt be of some interest to your readers though i suspect in will leave Many of them Toad ii indifferent. Ray Brown reconcile ment Slot Netherlands letter prompts response this is directed to the writer from Kaiser Slauter who apparently does l appreciate her second floor selection to the Vogel Weh Exchange. I am sore i speak for Many who would be Able to withstand the agony of bumping into Liz Ralph and next Lime you tangle with the Cid Sive cloth ing come visit those of us whose Exchange is no bigger than the beverage Section of your 24-hour Rood and. You stated that the bargains Are better downtown. Good maybe if you shop downtown that will thin out the Exchange crowds for those of us who drive four hours there and Back to see an Exchange with iwo floors. Sol Edwird or Yalta prom As wot Germany Deuce with our ship and our sailors,1 and we have received Tome really heart warming and informative letters and pictures in return. We Nave Learned a lot about what it is like to serve on a ship in the Gulf and about what it is like to live on a hip. These tetters have Lent the Kida to maps encyclopedias dictionaries and newspapers to learn More about the things our sailors have told us about. We have also Learned How satisfying it is to do things for Ibert without expecting anything in return. For Valentine s Day the whole school pitched in and made Valentines so that every Man Over 790 on Board received a personal Valentine. We re also collect ing paperback books to Send to the ships. Reading material in in Short Supply and very expensive in the Middle East we still Send cards and idlers on a regular basis. Some Are answered and some Are not but in does t matter to us. We re doing our Best to boost the morale of our Guys in one of the hot spots of the world. We appreciate the interest that the men aboard the la Salle especially chaplain Pete Mcgeory have taken in us but that was a Bonus to the great High we have gotten knowing that we Are doing our Little part to Lei these men know they have not been forgotten. Would t it be i Crifie if All of the kids in the Dodd schools wrote letters to these Guys if you re interested mail them in care of he chaplain Asu Bahrain Fpo new York o5si6. It can even go maps if in weight under 12 ounces. 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