European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 14, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 15 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers if you will allow me the privilege id like to use your column to say something to a Man i once Felt quite close to. He is a any Soldier a operation desert storm.�?�. I its me. In a sure you re Home by now because my last letter was returned by the military. You never gave me your stateside address so i guess this is it for us. I done to know Why in a still worried about you. No that a not True i do know. Its because i began to care a which was dumb. Did you enjoy the cartoons i sent i Wasny to sure if you d think they were silly but i figured laughs were in Short Supply in such a grim setting. You la never know How much i agonized about sending my picture. It occurred to me that you might think i was pushing things but i wanted you to feel As if you knew me. Like i said a i really started to attach a lot of importance to our correspondence. You seemed like such a Nice Guy. I done to mean to complain but the wars Over and you never did write Back like you promised. That Sok in Man adult and i realize you re probably Back Home now readjusting to your own life and Busy getting acclimated. War does funny things to the Way people think. They tend to View everything As i guess that a where i made my big mistake. I had other ideas. Nutty huh today a crossword dear Abby dear Abby my husband underwent multiple bypass surgery a year ago and he a rapidly falling Back into his old habits of working too Long and too strenuously. I m afraid he is soon going to be Back to the state of health he was in when he got that heart attack. He is in his late 50s and is still a Workaholic. He is holding Down two full time jobs and being the perfectionist he is he tries to Excel at both. Forget exercise. He has a stationary bicycle at the foot of his bed that he a had for two years and its As Good As new. The reason in a writing is that some of my friends have told me that you had a poem in your column tilled slow me Down lord and i would like to get a copy so i can have it blown up and framed and Hung Over his desk. He has promised that if i get it for him he will read it every Day and try to slow Down. Please a a a Skeeter in South Carolina dear a a Skeeter the poem was written by Wilferd a. Peterson and i Hope your husband can slow Down Long enough to read it. And Here it is slow me Down lord slow me Down lord ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my harried Pace i done to need to write your name you know who you Are. I just wanted you to know that you turned out to be someone important in my life and i la never forget you. Any woman an town. . Dear . If its any Comfort please know that you Aren t alone. In be received hundreds of letters from women who feel let Down because their Gulf War pen pals Are no longer in touch. To those who Are feeling Hurt i say War does crazy things. Men get lonely. Women fantasize. Reality becomes distorted. Fantasies take on the look of commitments. If or. Wonderful suddenly dropped out of sight write Oft the relationship As a pleasant interlude and get on with your life. It was fun while it lasted but its Over. Dear readers with so much dissatisfaction regarding the Quality of education these Days Here san interesting Story from columnist Joey Adams a disgruntled schoolteacher handed in her resignation with the following comment a in our Public schools today the teachers Are afraid of the principals the principals Are afraid of the superintendents the superintendents Are afraid of the Board the Board members Are afraid of the parents the parents Are afraid of the children and the children Are afraid of c creators Syndicate with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me amidst the confusions of my Day. The calmness of the everlasting Hills. Break the tensions of my nerves with the soothing music of the sighing streams that live in my memory. Help me to know a the magical restoring Power of sleep. Teach me the Art of taking minute vacations of slowing Down to look at a Flower to Chat with an old Friend or to make a new one to Pat a stray dog to watch a spider build a web to smile at a child or to read a few lines from a Good Book. Remind me each Day that the race is not always to the Swift that there is More to life than increasing its Speed. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering and know that it grew slowly and Well. Slow me Down lord and inspire me to Send my roof s deep into the soil of life s enduring values that 1 May grow toward the stars of my greater destiny. C Universal press Syndicate across 1 Rue the run 5 to Revenue source 8 Don t move 12 friable soil 13 mrs. Herbert Hoover 14 whine 15 . 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