European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a the stars and stripes wednesday january 15, 1992 thes european edition circulation 100,000 col Gene e. Townsend Usan commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski de if of Bill Walker european editor Deborah Aba her nows editor Bob Wicker sports editor Bryan Nolan City editor George Manea special sections editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37 6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or ets 340-8 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237, 255, 282, 226, 326. Sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321, 221. Features ext. 230, 245, 341. Letters to editor ext 208 education Jimi Jones ext. 226 business ext. 326. News bureaus Bremerhaven Germany Ken Clauson building 103, Carl Schurz Cavern Apo a 09069 Telephone ets 3428659 or civilian 0471-8b7b2 Kaiserslautern Germany Peggy Davidson. 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A lot of the time people driving up to the Gate do things to try to intentionally get on our nerves. In be had people Stop two and three car lengths away from the Gate hold their id card up to the Windshield which nine times out of 10 is tinted so dark i can to Sec a thing and expect me to be Able to read it. When i motion to them to move closer i get a rude comment or a dirty look. I can to even begin to count the number of people who pull up and just Flash their id card quickly and put it away before in be even a Chance to look at it. They also hold it upside Down or show the Back of it or hold it with their fingers covering the parts i need to see like the rank picture or expiration Date. Please pull All the Way up to the Gate and come to a full Stop. Please hold your id card where we can see it. Also everyone in the car not just the Driver has to have an id card of some sort in order to get onto Post. If we recognize you As an officer and we Salute please Salute Back. We Gate guards Are Only doing our jobs. I know its a hassle to have to Stop when you re on your Way somewhere in a hurry but we re Only following orders. So please keep the rude comments dirty looks and snide remarks to yourselves. A spec. . Walker Wurzburg German tipped Scales of Justice i have been in the . Army going on four years now. In be seen everything from. Articles 15 to special courts martial. What i can to understand about these judicial and non judicial punishments is that they Are not consistent with different soldiers. 1 have seen soldiers make the same offence such As driving under the influence or missing a formation As another Soldier in a different company or battalion and the punishments will differ. Especially now with the draw Down of the . Armed forces there is an increase of the punishment Given and the offence is More exaggerated than it would have been one year ago. Are the United states armed forces in that much of a hurry to separate soldiers from the military there Are much easier and painless ways to separate someone in the United states armed forces than to nitpick the Soldier finding every fault that they May have and chartering him out for minor misconduct. A Sterling l. Bradley to Heilbronn German Speed limits ignored i can wholeheartedly agree with the writer of a housing area  in the three years we be lived Here Ramstein in be noticed an amazing phenomenon in the Ramstein a housing area. Drive 200-300 Yards on base at the posted 25 Kilometres per hour and you have three or four cars on your rear bumper. The bulging bloodshot eyes and White deals grip Knuckles on steering wheel that i see in my rear View Mirror is Apt testimony that these people done to want to be bothered with a Speed limit. This phenomenon transcends rank and gender. Yes in be seen a general do it As Well As a colonel chief master sergeant airmen and family members. I m wondering if the Speed limit will be enforced the Way aviation safety rules Are enforced. Sometimes nothing happens in aviation until there a a lot of bodies at the end of the runway. A Strong parallel can be drawn with the a Al users a and a Mario Andretti so of the Ramstein a housing area. Whose child s body will lie dead in the Street before the housing area Speed limit is enforced better yet lower the Speed limit to 16 Kilometres per hour 10 Mph to give the kids a Chance. A Dewayne Currier Ramstein a Germany editor s note letters from readers expressing their viewpoints or opinions Are published daily in this space. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. Letters should be addressed to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. A a a letters requesting information or assistance Are answered in a feature called readers action line which appears on Page 16 every Day except thursday and sunday. Such letters should be addressed to readers action line the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211.idea of citizenship i have been Reading the discussion lately about hyphenated nationalities. I Ain a Sophomore at Ramstein american High school. In my history Book i have just Learned about of Romfo Anokye who helped form a Union of Many Small clans in the asante Forest. One of of Romfo Anokye a rules was that no asante would talk about the place where their ancestors came from. Thus All Tsantes would remember that they were asante first and persons of a certain town or clan second. An idea of citizenship was formed. A Tom Colling sch Edelbach Germany parental prerogative this letter is in response to the article concerning the German Law making it illegal to spank a child. I find this appalling. How can a person deny you the right to discipline your child As you see fit some people yell abuse but there Are other forms of abuse also. How Many people have been turned in for verbal abuse or not giving kids emotional support love etc.? i done to go for that trash that if you were spanked As a child you grow up to abuse your kids. Not necessarily so. Those who weren to spanked Are also guilty of abuse. I As a Parent will choose How to discipline my children As i see fit. There is a line Between discipline and abuse and every child that has been or will be spanked will not necessarily be on the wrong Side of that line. I go along with the Reader asking about it being of to Poison our body with legalized prostitution but not Legal to discipline your kids. Different forms of discipline work for different people. I timeout May work for some but most kids Are smart enough to sit in timeout and figure out something else to do. There is also disciplinary actions you can use by restricting the child a activities or taking away some. Whatever method of discipline my husband and i choose to use is our decision because we have to raise our kids. How dare someone Tell me what i can or can to do m the process. My kids Are Well adjust letters to the editor de. The one in school is an Honor Roll student. When i was growing up your neighbors could discipline you and you had better listen. Not now say something to someone skid and you May get cursed out by both the kid and the Parent. Maybe this is saying something about the values of discipline today. A Felicia Nesbitt Kaiserslautern Germany titles truly mythical let me Settle the specious argument raging in recent letters about which College team has Quot won the most Mcaa football National championships. The fact is that every division i a College has won the exact same number of National championships Zero. There is no Mcaa championship to be won folks. The Mcaa does not Sanction a title game or tournament. The polls arc hopelessly political regionally biased and Down right manipulated. They have no Validity to any thinking fan Only to the fanatic whose team happens to be voted a no. 1�?� at seasons end. Cases in Point Are the results of the last two final polls from the a the most absurd of the myriad polls. A year ago they proclaimed a team with two losses and a tie As a National  this year they so honoured a team that chose to play a Home game against history a most inept bowl school rather than seek the very Best Competition available which happened to include teams ranked 3rd, 6th and 7th. Cowardice counts to the a it seems. So take heart Kansas state Idaho and Northwestern you have just As Many football titles As anyone else. A master sgt. Terry g. Bollea Augsburg Germany pen pals i am 26 years old and i would like to have pen pals. 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