European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 11 dear Ann Landers when 1 was 17 i ran away from Home. I m a girl i was running away from an alcoholic father and. A Mother who had a nervous break Down and was off the Wall most of the Lime. I have several Brothers and a sister who were signed a lot. They sold drugs and stole 10 sup port their habits. To t knew i had to gel out of thai environment but i should not have ran away from Home. It is too dangerous. Teen age runaways Are easy prey for pimps and drug dealers be came they Are naive and vulnerable and have no Money. They often get raped and end up As prostitutes. I did t know there were courts thai could have put me in a Foster Home where i would have had food and shelter and maybe with Luck people who eared about me. Ann please keep telling kids who Are having trouble at Home thai it is awfully dangerous to go off on their them again and again to talk to a school Counselor or a favorite teacher or a Clergyman or the Parent of a Friend. Anything is belter than the Street i found my Way Back from a living hell and am determined to make a respectable life for myself. Lucky to be alive Baton Rouge writer says flights needed to keep peace i by to Henen you stick with it Mil hut Yon will help Jav tethers and sister find by to � decent life. Pilfer Brace hitter a priest in new York Wop oper ate shelter far runaway says that to mfr biggest prob Lem my h aids. Most of he kids who tout to themare already Latec Ted. He says no matter How bad it is at Home it it Tetter than the streets. Thank Jim Lor airing me the Opportunity to once again focus on this tragic Rome dear Ann Landers t just read something in the paper thai has con Vinced me that people Are going nuts because they Don t have enough to do. A Man in san Francisco whose business it 19 to sell checks to Banks got bored one Day because All the checks looked the same. He dreamed up what he Calls naughty checks these checks have drawings that Are supposed to be funny. There s one of a Man Mak ing obscene gestures another of a dog with his Hind leg. Raised a third is of a Man mooning. The creator of these checks says that his Job is a lot More interesting now and business is Good. I am a respectable Church going woman who used to work in a Bank. I would be terribly upset if i ran into that kind of trash on the Job. Is there any Law that could make such checks illegal i mean How far Down arc we going to allow the first amendment and Freedom of expression to take us any Way burned up in Fresno dear burned personally 1 think the idea is geared to the mentality of idiots. Oat so Long As the drawings Aren t hard Core porn they cannot be outlawed 1c part at the Price he pay for being a free people and. In my opinion in s Worth in. Dear Ann Landers 1 have s 1 0 Riding on ill is one. My three grandchildren laugh at me when i said Nictune is a drug and that people who smoke Are drug addicts. Am i right or wrong crazy grandma in Indian Lake by. Dear Indian Lake it Auy sound Feu out but the statement to Correct. Nicotine is drug. If a person is addicted to in oking he or she nay be rightfully classified As � drug addict. Collect the id spot. Granny. I heard and read again the problems some German civilians have with those darn loud military air planes mostly fighter Jet slow level flying and the need for flight inc quiet hours on military air bases. Frankly those arguments Don t face up to reality. Sure the Juls Are loud and arc an inconvenience but having the Warsaw pact nations led by an imperialistic soviet Union poised a couple of Hundred kilo me ters away makes the jets presence As part of the nato Alliance necessary. Let s talk about inconveniences. There arc tots of them in Western Europe for the nato troops stationed away from their Homes countries pulling duty Here the German government giving up land on which to have bases training areas and the civilians who arc displeased about the extra infringement upon their City. In fact in is very inconvenient for the nato and Warsaw pact countries to spend billions of dollars or the equivalent preparing defences. But it is a military necessity due to political decisions. Point is we need the nato military presence to ensure continued peace. Because the area available 10 train on land and air is Small and crowded civilians will just have to put up with military training and exercises As part of the Cost of Freedom. There Are tots of people making sacrifices. Civilians who also enjoy the benefits of peace should take this As one of theirs. Now you say you could minimize that noise from Low level flying for us who Aren t involved in it Well everyone living in Europe is involved whether you like it or not. No it s not Good Community relations to Buzz the tomcat Gasthaus at 11 . But nighttime flying is Nec Essary. Pilots have to practice Maneu vers at varying altitudes speeds and flight patterns Over every bit of terrain available. Nato aircrews whether flying of Luis or something else need All the extra training practice they can gel because Ivan s air forces outnumber ours over2-lol. A group of dissidents led by Werner May wants to ban All Low level nato military flying. These Dum Mies want to put up balloon barrages around nuclear plants and Block pilots from gelling to their air bases. Their fear of a Jet crashing into a nuclear Power Plant does t have much plausibility in More than 30 years of Low level flying with hundreds of thousands of flight hours there Haven t been cases of this but the drawbacks of not flying vastly outnumber the benefits. But in might be worthwhile to study whether there Are a few nuclear plants needing extra Protection hard ened exterior or special lighting for night flights for identification to prevent catastrophe. I can see now some of the next causes these anti military groups will Champion closing Down air bases after 6 ., setting quotas on allowed military train ing sorties per month and no flying Over residential areas. All these initiatives would be warmly welcomed by the Warsaw pact. So complainers put up with the noise and the flying. We re Here As allies prepared and willing to defend your and my lifestyle and freedoms. I would think you d find these sporadic infrequent noises More comforting than if we weren t Here. In is a Smalt Price to pay for the Comfort of knowing that these Friendly forces Are practising and training for the Protection of everyone living Here. Sure beats flying for the real thing War. Capt Richard Stephens or. a West Germany writer says education can end racism Van Iren it was refreshing to read the recent Tetter regarding children As a future end to racism. White a vision of a world with racial and ethnic Harmony is Ideal sadly it is without possibility or he current trend of the at Lull influence the child have to learn from. All races have become sedated by the material things which lure them into complacency. Chang comes Only from struggle. In becomes a reality when people no longer accept the Way in this Clement of struggle is what is missing in the american lifestyle today. People arc Content to watch their tvs and Vars to listen to their cd and to enjoy How Many of these adult role Mode stake their children to the Library to study with them their racial ethnic heritage How Many italian Amer ican families or any hyphenated american families study their ethnic in Guage together the loss of cultural identity is widespread and the Many afro american families i have been acquainted with Over the years one and Only one taught their children about and celebrated Quinza. The rest All stand in line to Sec Santa and cheat their children out of a Rich cultural heritage. Children arc Mere reflections of their parents. Change will come about not through them but through their role models their teachers in Short through us. Only our efforts to be True to our heritage and by involving our children and educating them with Pride and dignity can a Hope to end the horrors of racist thoughts and lifestyles. That lakes Effort and study and dedication things which arc in Short Supply for most. Robert f. Savin Berlin abusing West German hospitality a few Days ago the following letter from a Reader appeared in inc Stuttgart or maybe it would be interesting for your paper As Well. No abuse As to the funeral ceremony of Ramstein at this ceremony the american ambassador in Germany Richard Burl promised not to forget the hospitality of the Federal Republic of Germany or to abuse it. One can be sure that the ambassador Means it inc Way he said it. If he were Able however to make this Clear to his fellow countrymen who live in German residential districts he would receive All my gratitude and that of inc residents and the daily abuse of hospitality might be Heine Merit bad Canstatt West Germany All letters to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and most be signed. We do not read unsigned letters but we will withhold your name on request and protect your privacy. 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