European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Ahn Landers dear Ann Landers i believe that i am a typical High school student. I get Good grades teachers like me i m Happy Mosi of the Lime and i have never thought about killing myself to. We had an Assembly today on ly.1 suicide prevention and i could t believe it. One out of every four teen agers will attempt suicide before he or she is 16. Every min � every hour a teen Ager at � tempts suicide. Every Day 33 kids will succeed. Why nobody knows for sure. The speaker at the Assembly gave us the following 12 warning signs. I know that it you print them Ann a life somewhere will be saved. Maybe some kid from my school who had been thinking of suicide tonight will show up monday morning because somebody recognized these signs and got him or her to gel help. Here they Are sudden change in behaviour. Dramatic change in appetite. Steeping difficulties. Some people want to sleep All the Lime when they re depressed others can t sleep at All. Poor performance in school. Trouble concentrating agitation inability not a social club. It is possible however to nuke new friends it the meetings and undoubtedly some of those friendships hire ended in Nur Ruge but that s not what a b about your Mother should Check with the local chamber of Commerce and Owca for a list of organizations and groups where she can meet people. If All the lonely folks found each other they would t be lonely anymore. Page 11 letters writer has Way to handle homesickness my heart went out to a homesick Young woman i heard about recently. She d just moved Here from the states with her husband and their 8-month-old baby. Before moving Here she had never been More than two hours away from her Home. I do not know her name but if i could talk to her i would Tell her i understand. There has been much advice from other women on How to Deal with adjusting to living in a foreign coun try and culture getting involved in women s club activities Volunteer work visiting the surrounding Countryside and making friends with local neighbors to name a few. But it seems to me that if we Are to feel comfortable accepting new ideas or adapting ourselves to a new environment we must first have something that is familiar to us something we can pull around us like a cloak when things become overwhelming. The following is How i have been handling it since i was a teen Ager growing up in the air Force and mov ing every two years. It helps me even More now that i m married to the air Force. Walk outside and Sil in a quiet place Day or night. Lift your eyes up past rooftops and treetops to the sky. Although you can t look directly at the Sun you can watch the sunbeams filtering through Clouds. At night you can look directly Al the Moon shining Down. Keep yours eyes focused there and soon All thai is below melts away. And remember this this is the same Sun Light or the same Moon that shone on your family Back Home less than 24 hours ago. Every single Day the Sun that warmed All things familiar to you Back Home is the same Sun that is warm ing you now. Soon even on the cloudies Rai Niest or most dismal Day you know with a certainly that the Sun and Moon Are up there and it is the same Sun or Moon that crossed Over America just a Tew hours be fore. You have something familiar no matter where you go something that is renewed every single Day. The Best situation to which i can compare it is this a Mother leaves her 4-year-old in a room full of adults for just a moment. Well a moment to this child is an eternity or at least a week. All the child sees is a Wall of trousers and skirts the rumble of grown up voices presses Down and restrains him. He is understandably frightened and will not allow himself to be comforted or touched. Suddenly he sees the familiar fare of his Mother walking toward him and he feels Safe again. His fear and shyness drop away and he feels free to explore and examine. He knows no matter what Hap pens now he has something warm and familiar to which he can turn. This is the same kind of feeling you get when you learn to focus on the Sun and the Moon in the sky. But there is even another Benefit. We perceive the sky us having no boundaries. Each time you concen trate on the wide expanse above you when you Loo Down again at your surroundings they become less significant smaller. After All when you become familiar with the Clements that govern the entire planet and you draw your sense of Comfort from them How can anything around you possibly be so formidable name and location withheld disease support group wants to help most parents Are aware of the birth disorder known As Down s syndrome or Tricomy 21. Another birth defect caused by an extra 18 chromosomes is Tonso my 1b and occurs in about i in 4,500 births. Due to variable medical defects or other difficulties associated with this syndrome to percent of children with Tricomy is die by the age of 6 months and 90 percent do not survive their first birthday shocking news for a physician to have to Tell new parents. We arc the parents of a Tricomy 18 child because she does have major medical problems we were told thai she probably would not live beyond 3 months then 6 months then one year. Now 2vi years old she is the love of our life and her Strong will to live 1 believe touches everyone who gets to know her. It took us almost two years however to find a sup fund Raiser address Given i just finished Reading the article about the fund raising Benefit in Kaiser Lautem for the flu tag trag Edy victims. As much As i would like to attend the event i cannot. I would be More than willing to give a donation to help the victims As i m sure a lot of people would is there an address for those who cannot attend the fund Raiser where we can Send a Check or Money order sgt. Charlese Decker Sandbar West Germany editor s note the address is Fly Flag memorial fund Mere Hanla National Bank ramble in South Side Branch Apo 09012 All a then to the editor must contain the fall printed name and address of the Miter and must be signed. Wedo not read unsigned letters but we will withhold your name on request and protect your privacy. All letters Are subject to editing. Port group for families of these children and that is the purpose of this letter. We now serve As chapter chair of soft support organization for Tricomy 18/13 or related disorders for families in Europe. Our purpose is to inform others families friends and doctor of our group and to offer support understanding and encouragement and to be a source for a wealth of prac tical information. Our organization has a Book on Tricomy is for families and one soon to be published on Tricomy 13 we distribute a newsletter and hold an annual symposium. Finding this group has helped us a lot and now we Hope to help others. John and Cathy Patch ,box73 Apo 09667-5383 arts correction a recent reply from col. Bruce r. Eaton commander an Europe to a letter questioning Why an does not break Down its local news segments into spot announcements contained a typographical error. The response should have said Dod has tasked instead of asked All arts stations to provide command in formation through spot announcements since ii format has proved to be a very effective communication the stars and stripes regrets the error. Pen pals Wenmin in would in k a pin p �. Wei finnic trial school Dri 8,o. Of no. Divia atty i in 1 41-Vur-am nun ind my Hoota i l dining dim my Tun Eiyind mum my. I Wuu we i p � oat the Wood. 110 trim London England these Milter Edmu tin Stan ind St no. Apo w31 1. 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