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Contents of the stars and stripes do not necessarily reflect the official View of or endorsement by the . Government Tho department of defense or the . European command. The appearance of advertising in this publication including insert or supplements does not const Lute endorsement by the department of defense or the stars and stripes of the products or services advertised. Poor planning there was an article about a Retiree Day at Ramstein a on june 4. I am wondering Why that Date was chosen. Does anyone know what is happening that week in Normandy France it is the 50th anniversary of a Day and there still happens to be a few around that took part in that exercise. I for one landed there on june 6 at noon and plan to be there for the ceremonies that week. As much As i would like to attend the Retiree Day it will not be possible. Wasny to any consideration taken when planning the Retiree Day a Jqhn c. Heegeman Ramstein a Germany. A. A. A ,. V a a done to Batter Peanut butter in reply to a spreading it think. March 10i used to work in the Span Dahlem Middle school cafeteria and i feel the letter deserves a reply. We were accused of being Lazy and not offering the Chil Dren a balanced lunch. The idea of having a Peanut butter Day was the students. We asked them what they would like to do for Black heritage month. We took their ideas and polled them to see what we should do. Our menu that Day was Peanut butter sandwiches with a Choice of four differ Cut jellies Carrot Sticks they prefer fresh vegetables to canned two different types of dips for the carrots fresh fruit and Peanut butter cookies. We Don t get cookies to serve in our school so we worked on our own with our own mixers and made 400 Large Cook Iasi each child got two. They must have been a hit because what we did no to use for lunch we sold As extras. Children Only have to Lake three of the five items of Fred to make the meal a United states department of agriculture reimbursable meal. So if pupils did no to take fruit that was their decision but it was offered. The menu was posted two weeks in Advance so the children who did no to want Peanut butter and Jelly could plan ahead accordingly. The army and air Force Exchange service was not trying to a make our accountants smile a and the women who work at the Span Dahlem Middle school Are far from Lazy. We give the children in our school a lot of choices so they will eat their lunch instead of throwing it away. That makes More work for us and we have to work a Little harder to do our extras around our regular work. We want to make sure that they get a Good lunch they will like and deserve. We get a lot of feedback from the kids and we listen to them and try to make them Happy. A a Karen Steiger Span Dahlem a Germany suggestions i would like to comment on the american forces network spot on travel safety using a military couple in an Airport. It cautions the viewer to be aware of his or  surroundings. I would like to make one suggestion. The female in the and is supposed to be a Varc of  surroundings however she leaves  purse dangling from  Shoul Der without a firm hold. She Only looks to see if it is still there after someone walks by. V a. A. Since most women use purses to carry Money passports and other forms of identification it is very important to keep their purses As secure As possible. Two ways Are draping your purse Over the shoulder and across the body and keeping a firm hold or using a purse with a Short strap that fits snugly under the Arm. Using these methods will make it a Little More difficult for a potential thief or terrorist to grab your purse a Renee Winbon. Kaiserslautern Germany code a two for Nixon concerning the caption under the photo of former president Nixon a casket being carried off a air Force one april 28former presidents of the United states have a vip code of a two a not a a one a a vip code of a a one is for the current president and foreign Heads of state according to department of defense flight a information publication Genera planning paragraph 4-3. A staff sgt. Daniel . Kothlow Heidelberg Germany c editors note we encourage our readers a especially those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us. Letters expressing readers viewpoints Are published Dally on this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner we Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Send to let ters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Commentary reflecting an appropriate River Cnoc for the recently dead and mighty that has often descended into simple bad taste and worse judgment everything gushing has been said about the career of Richard Nixon except that it loomed Large As an iceberg. The trouble is Only the tip of it was buried with immense honors at Yorba Linda Calif. All the lamentations appropriate to a funeral parlor have Bacri uttered in the Media and repeated by those whose reputations rest on Many of the same footings As the stature of the Man they served waited on wrote mean spirited speeches for admired and careened and politicker with. But the real Story of the Nixon presidency 90 percent of the truth of it still sits in the vaults of the National archives 3,000 hours of tape recordings Only 63 hours of which have been made Public. The late president who Bola bored us a and supported himself Well a with a shelf of books written to Salvage his place in history spent 20 years in the courts effectively blocking any Public hearing of the most comprehensive and precious source extant of the history of any of the 42 presidencies. Henry Kissinger droning on pompously to Charley Rose about what a great int of Lect Al Nixon was is scholarly drivel compared with the Best evidence which is of course largely unavailable the sheer volume of the Amateur psychiatry that has been practice on Nixon in the Media obsequies ought to provoke investigations by the medical disciplinary boards of a dozen states and the committee on standards of the american psychiatric association. More often than not people referred to the shakespearean nature of his character to the emotional complexity of As one put it a this giant with  judging by what we have heard of the tapes and read of the Nixon papers the patient at hand was More inexplicable for his inanities than either his warts or his hugeness. That he could have plotted global peace strategies so Broad and still have and time to spend what seemed like half a morning complaining to . Halde Man about a single episode of All in the family is the real mystery of the Nixon presidency. We have on tape Nixon the intellectual musing on what a wonderful family Robert Reno the Marriott were because for All the Money they made Selling liquor in their hotels they never drank a drop of the stuff. The Point is at the present rate of litigation fld transcription the full Story of the Nixon presidency is. Likely to be known around 2020, at which time most of us will be dead and a definitive study of his presidency will be about As publishable or widely read As Calvin Coo Lidgey a secret diary. L More to the Point the lessons that can be Learned from the history of that period Are important now. It snot just wanting to drool Over Nixon a opinions of characters like Ross Perot which must have been Rich or to hear More of his put Downs of Spiro Agnew or to make All the pious people who attended his prayer breakfasts squirm Over the Foulness of his language. After All the Only tapes released so far pertain to watergate a not Nixon at his most glorious As even his admirers must admit. Lord knows the Best of him must be on the other 3,000 hours. Until they Are released and researched As they should be and speedily this Man will stand in time As a giant piece of cardboard As a historical contingency. A a c new Day a. A. Zeu Essi. Justet amp a Ftp arms Simz 50rt Ofrat-in6557umt. 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