European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                He stars and stripes a Page 11 letters a Reader says Germany should be grateful Ann Landers dear Ann Landers after having read five or six letters in your column from readers who seem to take great pleasure in bashing working mothers i Felt it was time i spoke out. I have a 2-year-old and a baby of 6 months. 1 made the Choice and i believe it was a Good one. Yes in a one of those a a wicked women. I decided to go Back to my Job on la Salle Street in Chicago and pay my aunt to take care of the children. I made this decision for two reasons one in the Best interest of the children and the other because i believed it would be better for me. My Job makes it possible for my children to have excellent health insurance. Anyone who does no to have health insurance is in real danger. And done to Tell me a they have to take care of you a because it Isnit so. Several of my acquaintances have told me horror stories about family and friends who were turned away from emergency rooms because a your Case is not an emergency or a we just done to have room. Go to another  i graduated from the University of Chicago and my husband went to Georgetown. We want our children to have the Quality education that we had. Do you have any idea what those schools Cost today Well they Are both Over $20,000 a year including room and Board. In a talking now. What do you think it will Cost in 16 years 1 done to want anyone looking at me funny because i choose not to stay Home with my children. I am a realist and this is the real world. Sign me a Wilmette 111. Dear Wilmette thanks for speaking your mind. Here a another Point of View dear Ann Landers the letter from a a working mom in Kentucky made me see red. That woman is drowning in self pity. I could see a poor Little me in every line. Whiners make me sick. Who is pushing her out the door past her crying 3-year-old on her Way downtown to work she should sit m a quiet Corner for an hour or two and get her priorities straight. Her children grow a Little every Day and before she knows it they will be gone. When that happens she can walk away from Home and work All she wants. Eating red Beans and Rice will seem like filet mignon when she Cooks it for a family that loves her. The mended clothes will seem like Robes of velvet and Gold to her children because their Mother made them. The old car will Shine like a limousine if their Mother is taking them to the Library or to the Park. I believe the reason so Many children Are in bad shape today is because they Haven to had adequate parental care or Felt valued and loved. What in the world could be As important As being at Home for your kids when i hear women say they want a higher Standard of living for their children i ask myself what does that really mean a better neighbourhood private schools better clothes How important Are those things How about a prayer for a non working mothers i am talking about the ones who Are shunned in our society and called Lazy. I mean the ones who can to get credit because they done to have a a  if the truth were told it is the most important Job in the world. Believe me Ann i know what i am talking about because i have had both red Beans and filet mignon and let me Tell you ill take the red Beans any Day of the year. A a proud Mother in Kentucky creators Syndicate of its time to complain. I done to usually complain unless in a pushed and now in a pushed. I am so tired of hearing and Reading about How bad the German people want the . Military out of their country. One Day i read about Carl Ludwig Wagner min ister president of Rheinland Pfalz going to Washington to personally ask president Bush to take us out slowly so that we done to Hurt  Economy. Two Days later Walter Wallman minister president of Hessen says he wants us out. He a probably the same one who also wanted our commissary and main Exchange area. He a probably also the same person who says we done to need that area. Come on Man that a like saying americans done to eat food or need clothing. Hey we Arentt the bad Guys Here. Maybe the German people need to be awakened if it Wasny to for the american Canadian and British forces the Berlin Wall would not have come Down. All three forces have lost lives while protecting West Germany. Do the canadians and the British get to stay or Are they just waiting their turn the German people seem to be very ungrateful or Blind. I am an american and proud of it. I too am in defense of Tough this is in reference to the letter about the Rhein main a school bus policy. Yes the policy May be rigid but its there for a reason a the conduct of the children  made it necessary. The writer probably  had a warning or two about  child. Ii this is so it is Why he is complaining. My child Hasni to had any warnings so i done to feel a need to complain. I agree with the writer that it is ridiculous to expect a Grade school child to behave for 45 minutes on a bus. Tell me something though a Are you out there watching your child As she Waits for the bus Are you keeping her still or is she out with the rest of the kids running around Between parked cars throwing trash and splashing in puddles How can anyone expect children to sit still after letting them run around like wild people for half an hour just when their blood and adrenalin is pumping wham they re expected to sit still you done to need to be a psychologist to figure out what a wrong with that picture. Then you have the Gall to say it creates a Burden to have to find other transportation for your Lovely Little Angels. How about the inconvenience i face when 1 pull bus Monitor detail for a week i have a real Job to do and enjoy doing it. Part of my Job is to raise and discipline my kids and my kindergarten age daughter follows the rules just Fine. My Job is not to raise or discipline your child a its yours. As an assigned Monitor i have to catch a bus put currently a part of a Force Here to defend West Germany and am prepared to die for the United states on behalf of West Germany. The German people arc becoming greedy. They want want and want and the americans suffer. With budget cuts and soon Force cuts coming the americans Are suffering enough. What about our dependents hey if you done to know what a dependent is its a loved one. Yes americans do have loved ones. Americans Are starting to acquire an attitude and someone needs to control what a going on. All the minister presidents of West Germany can go to our president but believe me he cares about us. He will not nor will our higher  allow us to be without a commissar Exchange and quarters. They will Send us to the United states first. To the people of West Germany please Back off we in the military Are not the enemy and we will leave your country but its not going to happen overnight. I want you to think How Many americans saved German lives. Think about Why the Berlin Wall came Down. A sgt. 1st class Don Corrigan Frankfurt West German school bus policy up with several unruly children whose attention Span lasts All of two minutes then try to get my eight hour workload done before catching the 3 . Bus Back. Maybe the people who have children with warnings should be doing this tasking a Why should i put up with an a excessive Burden that your child created i work in a medical facility. When in a gone patients Are burdened by wailing a bit longer. Is that fair talk to your kids. Demand that they follow the rules. Keep them inside until the bus arrives not outside playing. Ride the bus a few Days and you la Sec the same 10 percent of the kids doing the same misconduct every Day and probably five minutes after being told not to. Some monitors sit silently or never formally report the troublemakers and unruly children. I did in one Case and was told the child a behaviour improved Why must the innocent 90 percent of the kids and their parents pay along with the unruly ones and their a a burdened parents who have to get them to school a name withheld Rhein main a West Germany # Wiesbaden . Reunion members of the Gen. . Arnold High school o Wiesbaden. West Germany classes of 1969-1973. Are planning a reunion. For More Inlo Malion Contact a a. Downer 3818 n. A St. Tampa Fla. 33609 or Call 813 875-7810 pen pals our hobbies Are gardening writing to friends cooking and swimming. A Nyla s. Garcia 18 a neddie s. 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