European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 21, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 11 i a if dear Ann Landers in be been Reading your column for a Long time and have com eluded that you think when you print a sad letter you will not Only help the person who writes it but others who might have the same problem. Misery loves company my dear woman you Are wasting your time. As my Wise old grandmother used to say Quot your pneumonia wont v. _ cure my  i done to care to read about misery and grief. Life is sad enough As it is. I turn to Ann. Landers strictly for laughs. If i want to cry i can read my own mail. Friends and relatives have been dumping on me for years. Mother is crippled with arthritis. My Only sister is living with a drunk who beats her regularly. I have a daughter who is very mixed up and into heavy drugs. She dropped out of school and i Haven to heard from her in three months. My husband has been seeing a woman at work for six years and tells me Quot if you done to like it you can get  so keep it Light and funny Ann or in a going to pass you Over. A done to need More tears Deardon need i hate to lose a Reader but i suggest you skip my columns and go straight to the comics. Yon done to have the foggiest notion of what this column is All about or what pm trying to do. Goodbye and Good Inck. Dear Ann Landers in a grossed out Over that letter from the screwball who considers herself an authority on overweight women. Instead of suggesting psychiatric help for fat ladies she should go to a psychiatrist and find out Why she is so hostile. You can to pick up a Magazine or newspaper anymore without being hit Over the head by an article on Quot Why women  they imply or say straight out that overweight people Are mentally ill or feel unloved and turn to food for Comfort. God gave us taste buds because he wanted us to enjoy food. I am overweight because i love to Cook and can eat a meal just tasting. I refuse to apologize for my size and 1 Don t hide in the House. My husband loves me the Way i am and has never asked me to go on a diet. I wonder if anyone has Ever done a study of women who starve themselves to look like models. How healthy Are they How can they have any Energy when they eat two carrots a Day and a spoon of cottage cheese i would much rather be overweight than ruin my health and end up looking like a starved rat. A plump in Riverside and Loving it dear Riv thanks for a Strong rebuttal take that and that and that and that a All you starved rats dear Ann Landers i was upset by your response to a fall sales  i agree that some people take advantage of merchants and try to return merchandise they have used after they decide they done to want it. But what if you buy a Box of Candy that is old and dried out or an aerosol can that quits one third of the Way Down or nylons with snags or a warped record or a deck of cards with Only three Queens what then any suggestions for the honorable shopper who does not get his Money s Worth a no Hiseler dear  the honest shopper can get his Money a Worth if he does business with reputable firms. I am reminded of Edmund burkes words of Wisdom Quot Economy consists not of saving but in . Of creators Syndicate a its time for America to help americans it seems like every time you pick up a newspaper or turn on the television its always the same old song and dance. Abortion handguns or the . Government giving away our tax dollars to these two bit countries. If a woman wants to have an abortion let her if you make it against the Law Shell have it done illegally anyway. It s her body she can do what she wants with it the Way inflation keeps rising compounded by the rising crime rate and the Ever increasing dig problem in our schools who wants to bring a child into a world like this and then there a the handgun Issue. People Are protesting against handguns Ana the National Rifle association. A gun sitting on a shelf can to harm anybody. But put it m the hands of some idiot and you get the results of the Mcdonald a or the schoolyard scene. Guns done to kill people people kill people. All these persons who Are against handguns and the Era Are doing it for the publicity. If they really wanted to Stop All this they would set after the politicians to reinstate the death penalty for anybody guilty of assault murder and rape an individual would think twice about committing a crime this serious if the death penalty was Down the Road. If one person murders another person Why should the . Taxpayers pay to put a roof Over this individuals head and give him three Square meals a Day we should just take Nim out and give him a dose of his own Medicine just take him out and kill him. Locking him up Isnit going to make him a better person for our streets worse maybe but not better. Besides our prisons Are overcrowded anyway. Lets say we get rid of All the assault rifles but you still have the murderer running around of lets get rid of the handguns too but you be still got the murderer running around and lets not forget the shotguns Small Caliper rifles and the High powered big game rifles Wco a get rid of those too. But you still have the murderer running around. All that a left Are the knives and the baseball Bat and hell kill you just the same. There a Only one real answer to All this. Take the murderer and get rid of him then last but not least Here a our government without even asking the people of the United states just politely gives away our hard earned tax dollars. By the billions they just shovel it out like Jelly Beans the United states gave Iran of All countries Over $80,000 because of the earthquake they had. Big Deal How quickly we forget about the hostages they Neld for 444 Days and bad mouthed the United states the whole time they held them our government gave Iran $80,000, and we have people sleeping in the streets we gave Panama Money but for what taking that Dummy out of there we give away millions to countries to keep our military bases there and their people can to stand us the Philippines Greece and Spain All want us out. So Why not just leave and put our bases where we re wantcd7 we give away All this Money and we have people living in the streets and starving to death. You a think the mighty . Government could build these people some Kina of simple dwelling like out of cinder blocks maybe not real expensive so it does no to break the gov emment. At least put some kind of roof and Walls around these people. And on top of giving away millions and billions of dollars we let All those foreigners into our already crowded country. And they take jobs away from americans who end up going on that Short bit of unemployment then when that s out they lose what Little they have left. How Long is this going to go on when is the United states going to Start taking care of its own people it seems if you want to get anything out of our government you have to be any nationality but american. A now done to get Nie wrong in a about As Rcd blooded american As you can get. And i love this country and believe in it. And am willing to fight for it. But enough is enough. We help out All these countries and people from All around the world. Its time to do something for the americans for a change. The american Farmer. The american Steelworker. The american Oil worker. The american autoworkers. The american Carpenter plumber electrician Etc. Like Merle Haggard said in his song Quot arc we rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell Quot its getting awfully warm. A sgt. Bryan t. Pousson Raf Woodbridge England a Mother grateful for go a guardian Angels id like to express my thanks to an american Soldier and since 1 do not know him i can to think of any other Way than writing a letter. This is what happened in the afternoon of Friday june 8 1990, my Little boy who is almost 3 years old went for a walk with his grandma in Hanau Gross nauheim. He managed to run off in the pedestrian subway under the l Highway 3309. When my Mother found him at last he was running along the Small strip of grass Between the Roadway of the l 3309 and the noise Protection Wall. This Road is highly frequented and the cars arc driving fast. T an american Soldier driving on the opposite Roadway stopped got out and crossed the Street. He stopped the other cars to prevent my boy from being run Over until the runaway was safely Back with his grandma. I am sure my boy will need Many guardian Angels until he is grown up and i am so glad one came along that Friday. 1 thank this Man with All my heart and wish him lots of Good Luck. A Elke Nachtigall main Hausen West Germany pen pals i am a 22-year-dd of Hilna. My hobbies include listening to music Reading Novela or pocket books going to Church gardening cooking and writing pen friends. A Helen o. Torres i Balanac. Pamplona Negros Oriental Philippines 6205 t am a might attendant and i enjoy cars euro Pean dining travel shopping and win elects. A Dan Dureiko Pobo 291 Tecumseh my 49266 i would like to make friends with people abroad. A Marilou Zaira 247 Sitio Sto. Nino Barangay san Dionisio Olivarez compound que. Metro Manila Philippines my interests include cooking dancing singing and making new friends. A Carol a Ortegan 12 Lopez Heights l War ton p o. Is. Catherine. 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