European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i heard you speak in Las vegas recently and you said you Wale 365 columns a year. If anyone deserves a Day off you do and i m going to help you get it on nov. 23, 1967, you ran a column i liked so Well 1 had it preserved in plastic i m sending it and asking that you run it again in Lime for thanksgiving Day of 1988. Ii would mean a Day Oft for you and a new column for my Wallet. California Friend a carpal i accept but do you mind if i Era h Ike Day before i already have my thanks Pirint column written. Thinks pal. Dear Ann Landers on this special Day i want to thank you for having the courage to Deal openly with human problems such As homosexuality rape incest cd and masturbation. Your Frank enlightened columns have educated Mil Lions who otherwise would continue to wander in the wilderness of ignorance. Thank you Tor reminding parents that discipline is a special kind of love. And thanks too for letting the world know that some children go wrong even though they be had Good upbringing and plenty of love and attention. Thank you for the thousands of Miles you travel to speak to All kinds of audiences. When they see an hear you in person they know you Are for real. Thank you for having the nerve to Call on the busiest and Best informed authorities in Medicine and psychiatry to gel the Best possible answers for your read ers. Your column offers thousands of dollars Worth of advice for the Price of Tow newspaper. Thank you for the encouragement and guidance you be Given the alcoholic the mentally ill the de pressed and the handicapped. Your column has been tremendously supportive to millions of people who secretly worry about themselves thinking they Are the Only ones in the world with such crazy problems. Thank you for admitting when you arc wrong. In takes a big person to do that. Thank you for your sense of humor. You have a Way of being funny without hurting feelings. 1 speak for millions of people when i say i Hope we will be Reading you for Many thanksgivings to come also from Iowa dear Iowa what a Beautiful idler and now Here s one to keep me from getting swell headed dear Ann Landers who appointed you god your smugness makes me sick. For example you Are always criticizing people who drop in unexpectedly. Who arc you to write the rules of conduct for the whole human race it so Hap pens 1 enjoy company any time. 1 consider it a compliment when people drop in. Recently you were asked How to get guests to go Home when they be had too many1 drinks and Don t want to leave. ". Your advice was just stand up and say Good night folks. Tomorrow is Here " 1 can1 imagine any one being so rude. I la bet you Don t have a Friend in the world. No admirer Denoi. Your letter was a perfect balance far the one above. We All need id gel our sails trimmed now and then. Thanks for doing it. Lot Angela Timot Wyndi Walaa ulu Mannl Landor welcomes your Toner you Cin Miu to he h car. Of tub St re and strip Apo Mill. . " Page 11 letters be grateful for All you have writer urges Over the course of the past iwo years i be been Fol the reality of life is not being Able to find formula for to blowing with sadness the Many articles on whal is perceived As a Lack of support systems to the  and his or her family. We As americans Are so very blessed with so much thai i believe we can t see the reality of All that we Are blessed with. I m tired of Reading complaints fro people stationed in Small Oul of the Way hardship areas who Are envious of those stationed in the luxury spots of the assignment ladder. My family and i were once stationed in one of those hardship areas Andare now in the Lap of luxury in Germany in a wider spectrum though i believe that All of us65 americans need to sit Down and reassess just whal we have in our own lives and families to be thankful for and to concentrate on All the benefits and the advantages that we have As free people. Sometimes Wedon t think Why we Are serving in these countries. During this season it is harder for me to read in Petty complaints that we spoiled americans have to concentrate on. A year and a half ago my family and Imade an Eye opening trip by car 10 Poland to visit my husband s family. There is where you will see the reality Olliie not living As we americans know it life in Poland is an everyday struggle to survive. Thy our new baby being thankful to stand it line for six hours to buy your monthly ration of four Pound of meat being newlyweds and informed that the waiting list for an apartment is is years having a sick child and no Medicine available knowing that your slate controlled income is not enough to cover your stale imposed rent electricity and food costs knowing that a simple heart bypass is not available for your  hardest part though is knowing dial in the free West All this and More is available to All and we complain because the Rice Kris pics we buy in the commissary Are  Quick trip to Poland might Wake us All up a Little More and let us be a bit More grateful for All thai we Lake for granted try 10 treasure in All and appreciate it a Little More knowing maybe that there Are real people yes  ple like you and me who Are struggling to make Alife in the East under the constraints afforded to them while we Are free in the West free to voice our opinions free to complain free to move about and free 10 enjoy. Think Flo us them people like you and me ind be grateful. Sgt. 1st class Janice Blaszczyk bad Kreuz Nach West Germany readers respond to non voting stand we have freedoms and liberties unparalleled any where in the world. Freedoms of speech and religion the right to privacy and most of All the right to vote. I m not Loo excited with the choices either but to not make a Choice is a travesty. Yes i will choose the lesser of the two  although one candidate May not be outstanding i can certainly qualify one Orthe other because definite differences do exist. ". And whal of the other races the various Senate and House seats available in your Home state or the propositions involving aids reporting car insurance and other hot topics did you forget those items were on this ballot also my Point is that voting is a privilege we All take for granted. Not voting is exercising your right to abstain but it s More Ofa cop out than anything else. John r. Barbour Spang Dahlum West German unfortunately i must agree somewhat with the Quality expressed about the presidential candidates. Nevertheless i voted. Regardless of politics one of these two men had to win the election and beginning january will be the president of the United  the president and the Congress your tax dollars will be spent foreign policy will be decided an implemented any number of events win happen. If you Are a Serviceman or Dod civilian your support becomes even More direct. We will gel the leadership we deserve. Ever citizen owes Illo himself and his fellow citizens to study the issues and  voting out of conviction May not be the same As not caring. The bad thing is it has the same result. Our politics May not be the same but your opinion docs matter. I urge you to express that opinion in the  you should while your congressmen and your president As Well but you should also address them m terms they consider the Bottom line Vole. Wei Eye. Collierjr. 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