European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 letters to the editor sunday october 31.1993 thes europ an edition col. Steven s. Hoffman Usan. Corner Marjer Public skier Bernard a. Zov1stoski editor news and editorial Bill Walker european editor Deborah aether George Menee news editor City editor Bob Teker John Tytor sports editor. Acting special sections editor to write us unit 29480 apoae09211 Orost Facell 1437 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us Diat 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-0 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. 203. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Hei Helbero Germany Joseph Owen. Room 117, Flome str. 104. 69128 Heidelberg car 419. Box 1310, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 0622v23421 Tel fax 06221-27239. 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Poet not constitute endorse ment by the department of Ense or the stars and stripes of the products or services and Venison. Float like a Duck ducks float but take away the Oil that protects their feathers and they will sink like an overstuffed thanksgiving Turkey. This analogy is to demonstrate what the readers must do in order to keep afloat i Europe. The stars and stripes perpetually receive letters that Are nothing More than a Contin Ual whine from soldiers and civilians. Complaints Are about the most ridiculous things that Don t matter Inslfe. A real Ity Check is needed for the masses. If you have spent at least one Day in government service in any capacity and be Lieve that any command figure or senior army and air Force Exchange service manager cares about your needs get a life. If you believe that any Survey sponsored by any Branch of military under the Guise of improved services or support will be valued or implemented then you Are fooling yourself. If you believe the old saying i m fro the government and Here to help then you la believe that cafes is the nation largest discount retailer. Captains become majors lieutenant colonels become colonels and so on until they reach a Point of quasi puppet Power. They Don  the top by offering new ideas or saving no to supervisors they Are yes men excuse me yes persons/1 least offend the feminists. Leadership is like the Duck covered in an Oil film and the problems of lower live merely run off them. Rush supporters complain that the armed forces radio and television serv ice is promoting censorship. You just Fig ured that out in regard to the forever letters from the cafes whiners. I have Given this the term the cafes polka the song and dance they give you to deny what we All know cafes is not helping anyone in the a Cranks and below. Be like the Duck. Build yourself an Oil layer. Float on the water. Swim with the current. Let problems Roll off you. Nothing will change. I wont and continually complaining will not change a thing. You Are dealing with government mentality. Most of you need to take charge of your lives and accept it adjust it rearrange it or re define it. Stop the Petty whining and Geton with your life. Tony Csonka Augsburg Germany looking for balance i detect in Reading your letters Page an unsatisfied desire for a conservative View Point in the print and broadcast Media to counter the overwhelming Liberal slant that is pervasive in everything that is available to us from the . Media. I have the same de sire and that is the reason i get my news from the Wall Street journal Europe an subscribe to the National review. I realize that your paper does not author its own editorials National and International news bulletins but your choices limited to what is available from the news services. These Are predominantly Liberal and they tend to put a Liberal slant on their reporting. I must admit that you give More space to conservative commentators such As Williamf. Buckley or. Than was the Case in years past but it still does not balance out. I am sure that the flurry of letters express ing a desire to have Rush Limbaugh added to american forces network programming is a result of the pent up desire for a More balanced presentation of viewpoints. The broadcast Media is the most glaring exam ple of Liberal Bias that we see in Europe. A few weeks ago the National review printed a special report on the Liberal Bias of the news Media. It even shocked me and already knew it was bad. Another special report documented the truth about the Reagan presidency. All you hear from the Media is about the decade of  no one will admit that the Reagan years were the Best the country has had for 40 years and he is directly responsible for the collapse of the soviet Empire. Even the russians admitted it much to the Chagrin of Dan rather who was interviewing two of them live on television and could not edit the statement out. Rush Limbaugh s National Best seller the Way it ought to be was prominently displayed outside the Entrance of every Bookstore i passed on a recent trip to the states. When i got Back to Germany/1 looked in vain for it at the stars and stripes Bookstore. Why is this National Best seller not available Here de rider Rhein main a Germany credits Are separate the article Day care changes Breed confusion oct. 7 incorrectly confused the earned income credit Etc and the cred it for child care expenses by treating them As one credit when they Are two separate credits with different eligibility require ments. The Etc has nothing to do with child care expenses. There is no Way raising the rate sat daycare centers could help a family be come eligible for the Etc. The credit for child care expenses could provide a non refundable tax credit based upon earned income and child care expenses and is available to families overseas. Perhaps this is the credit the article was at tempting to discuss. Belinda l.  Germany. Charity begins at Home Why is the United states always getting into some other country s affairs it seems to me that America is More concerned about other nations problems than their own. Look at us we Are in Somalia Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Middle East three different places at  Are sending our men and women to foreign nations. For what most of these nations Don t want us there such As Somalia. Their people Are killing some of our soldiers. Look at Bosnia and Herzegovina and Somalia. They Are blocking the flow of food and Medicine to people who Are in need of it. All this Energy that the United states inputting in to help other countries is the same Energy we could use to help our own country. I m not saving we should t help those in need of help but what about our nation s Many homeless sick and hungry on the streets in the states we must first help our own country be fore we go and help another. You just can t give a country something our own nation could use. Mark Smith Heidelberg Germany feed our own first i would like to know Why we Are sending food to Bosnia and not our own people who need it. I feel that we should look at our country s problem first before we jump unto help others. We re always Rushing to the Aid of others which is Good but for once we need to help ourselves. The United nations is Able to take care of some things without us. What if one of our planes were to get shot Down Are we going to make the same mistake i think we could and should help our country while we help  l. Yelder Heidelberg Germany May or May not decide to buy  can t help but wonder if there will be the same kind of uproar when nudity Start appearing in video games. Markus Wilson Heidelberg Germany  hispanics slighted last month was hispanic history month but i barely saw anything about hispanics inthe stars and stripes. The Only thing i saw about hispanic heritage month was in the Herald Post the weekly Community Paperin Heidelberg. Some hispanics might find it racist because just about the Only time they Are in the news is when they have committed a crime. I know a lot of hispanics and they Are just like anybody else who wants to be treated with respect not As criminals. I just want to know More about hispanics and the Good things they have done Tor the world not theban things. Chris Aydlott Heidelberg Germany. Alleviating pain in Spain i have been exposed to military Medicine for 60 years the Gamut running from the routine physicals shots it al., to several length hospitalizations for causes far re moved for the sick lame and Lazy categories. Physical facilities have ranged from Field installations to upscale facilities such As Fitzimmons and 97th general hospitals and their ilk. While in no Way do i fault the care received it All pales when compared to that rendered by the . Naval Hospital i Rota Spain. In my Book As a fully qualified patient this faculty is excellence defined. All of the Hospital personnel with whom have had Contact and there Are Many each and every one has responded in a positive pleasant and professional . Forsblade Madrid Spain refreshing change being stationed overseas one is always Reading of All of the terrible things happen ing in the United states. Often the Only Sto Ries in the news and magazines Are filled with one horror after another. Your article on Rev. Mike Nash oct. 9 was a refreshing change of Pace. It s Nice to read about Good people doing their Best to make life easier for others As Well As All of the bad news. R i would like to commend the stars an stripes for a Well written enjoyable article. Let s see a few More like this  tafe. Bit Burgas Germany. Depths of degradation the Story concerning the Elora Mckemy murder was More appropriate for another paper the National enquirer. How has the stars and stripes sunk so Low As to sensationalize the death of this poor child How can you be so callous As to put her family s horror on Public display the general Public had absolutely no reason to be privy to the gruesome details of this tragedy. Master sgt. Rod Crase Memminger a Germany rate video games lately i be been hearing that video games Are becoming too violent. Too violent for kids yes but Why docs everybody believe Only kids play video games there Are older game players who do appreciate the realism that s starting to show up in video games. I believe Banning so called violent video games would cause an even bigger uproar. A much better solution would be a rating sys tem for video games. 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