European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i just finished Reading the let Ter from the High school girl who was angry and upset because her parents moved in her Junior year. My dad moved us my mom and six kids 10 different times. I knew from experience that a new school can be scary and intimidating. I also knew i had to make the Best of it. So i became involved in As Many activities As i could handle. I now have friends in their 20s and 30s whom i have known since third Grade in Chi Cago eighth Grade in Cincinnati. 12th Grade in Washington. . And College in Southern Maryland. I moved Back to Chicago after graduation and later met my husband in that great City. Believe it or not. His family moved As much As mine and we have been transferred twice in the last two years. I feel fortunate to have moved so often in my growing up years be cause i am much More self confident and Well rounded than if i had stayed in one town All my life. Please Tell Boston heartache the Way to make friends is to take the initiative. If she is Friendly and open people will accept her. Believe me i know from experience. . We were just transferred to Victoria Texas and i can t wait to gel there and Start my new life. Sign me lots of mileage left dear mileage the teen Irr who wrote was complaining because the bottle was half empty. You rejoiced because the bottle was half full. Attitude is everything. Bless you for proving the Point so beautifully. Read on. Dear Ann Landers Here s a Little parable for the girl who Mcd her parents because they had to move to another City. This meant leaving her High school friends and the popular cd that she had enjoyed. An old Man who was considered the Wisest person in the City was called on to share his Wisdom with a Young couple who seemed distressed. We have just Kovco  the said. How arc the people in this City How were the people in the City where you came from the Wise Man asked. They were  was the response. We did t like an of  the old Man replied. Well they re the same  the following Day. Another couple came and asked the same question. The old Man asked. And How were the people in the City you came from they were  was the reply. We hated to   the old Man said they Are the same  dear Ann Landers i have two daughters. My oldest is now 25 and will be getting married at the end of this year. Her Mother and i were divorced when she was 17. And her Mother remarried six years ago. My daughter wants to walk Down the aisle with her Stepfather on one Side and me on the other. I Don t feel right about this. She is my daughter and i want to walk her Down the aisle alone. She says if i Don t do it her w a. She will have her Mother and Stepfather walk her Down the aisle. Under these circumstances would it be wrong if i did t go to the wedding i love my daughter very much and i was a Good father. Tampa dear Tampa since you raised the girl i agree thai you should have he Honor of walking her Down the aisle. No matter How this problem is resolved i urge you to attend. To stay away would be a mistake you d regret forever. Writer wants to sub peace Force for troops the recent article by Stephen eng Lberg tit cd looking for a Mission stresses the need for altering the focus of National defense spending. In the past year we have seen our armed forces help during the Hurricane disaster in South Carolina the earthquake disaster in san Francisco and More importantly the environmental cleanup of the Exxon Oil spill in Alaska. In the Case of the alaskan Oil spill our government was reimbursed by Exxon for the Cost of the work. Unlike Panama and Grenada these were peaceful missions. With the cold War ending and troop cuts in All the Eastern bloc countries it is Only a matter of time before All soviet troops will be pulled out of the Eastern bloc countries. As the world changes the enemy changes. In addition to drugs and dictators today s enemies include racism hunger homelessness pollution Pov erty natural disasters and even Road and brigade renovations at Home. America spends 60 percent of its military defense budget in Europe and much of that Money has been spent during 25 to 45 years of peace. In the 60s, Amer Ica had a Strong surplus Economy with no National debt and we could afford to have bases in Europe and Japan but in the 80s we began spending Money that we really did t have. We ran up a $3 trillion debt in about 12 years. I believe that if we asked Germany or Japan to pay for the . To protect their surplus budget Industrial dynasties they would simply say thanks but no thanks and ask us to leave. No one can afford to pay us to be in Europe. Even the taxpayer can t afford it. We need to have a Long term 10 to 15-year plan to Send All overseas troops Home but the plan must in clude continued employment in the new Mission. 1 suggest a peace Force a Domestic Force to clean up our cities Stop drugs clean up pollution feed the Hun Gry fix the roads and Bridges and build Homes for our homeless. Closing stateside bases eliminates stateside jobs and hurts our Economy. Closing overseas bases will Stop the flow of american funds into the hands of German landlords and local nationals. We be wasted too Many american tax dollars while the germans and japanese have become the strongest economic nations in the world. One of their secrets to Success is their Cap on defense spending with none of their troops overseas. David w. Holdefer osterholz West Germany nato necessary to keep world free most of us who can remember what went on in the 1940s in Germany cannot really believe that some of those Altro cities were almost possibly committed by Nicolai cd Lucescu and his much haled secret police. Lacr. News reports out of Romania convinced the Western Media that they were let out in a courtyard chased Down and eventually  one woman exclaimed after the execution. At last the anti Christ is dead after Reading an article printed in the  in which Brian Picott expressed his opinion about the outrageous Attro cities committed by the nazi regime not Only in Dachau but in Auschwitz and lord knows what other locations. I had to comment on current situations in Eastern european countries Are we really in so called peaceful times Are the communists really leaving High positions of Power we can Only Hope so. Enter nato into the picture. A Symbol of Freedom and Liberty for Over 40 years. High talk has it that nato should disband because the Eastern posture has changed. Has it really changed or Are the changes cosmetic of course we All would like to Sec Eastern european countries stride toward democracy and Freedom. Hut who will these newly formed democracies turn to Lor help in staying free the Warsaw pact nato in t something we can just dust off because of soviet foreign policy. Of course the Warsaw pact wants us to do just that. Fold our cards and Call it quits. Then they would t have those capitalist americans at nato to Deal with. And How Many Heads of state would represent the soviet Union when summoned to the . For illegal intervention if nato disbanded it would be a cinch to say throw Mustard Gas on Azerbaijan. Spec. Ron Sandefur Mannheim West Germany tips for mailing unprocessed film to . I am writing to give some hopefully helpful hints to people who Send their film to the United states to have it processed. 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