European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12letters to the editor monday. May 23. 1994 th6sthisnlpeseuropean edition col Steven s. Hoffman Usan commander publisher. A. Bernard a. Zovistoski a editor. A Quot news and editorial a Deborah Aba her nows editor Bill Welker european editor. Bob Wicker sports editor George Manet City editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 a to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-8 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 Jirol Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117, ramp Merlr. 104, 69128 Heidelberg car 419, Box 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 0622v23421 Lel fax 06221-27239, a Kaiserslautern Germany Kevin Dougherty John Bohmer building 2899. 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Her Lack of knowledge or ignorance makes me really sick. 1 done to. Know about Romania Hungary the Baltic states or the russians but i was born arid lived the first 19 years of my life in Poland and she needs to be told that Poland was about the most Liberal country when it came to treating jews. F they were Welcome in Poland since the 14th Century whereas in Western Europe they were murdered in the name of Many stupid things. Adolf Hitler did no to want jews to leave he wanted them dead. Jews that. Wanted and could did come to Poland. A. Every Day poles risked their lives to save As Many jews As they could. Many of them were sent to Auschwitz and never came Back. Today their children and grandchildren Are called anti semitic. 1 know of an entire Village burned by the germans because the villagers tried to save a few jewish families. If it weren to for the poles Many More jews would have suffered and died. The polish government though weak and existing Only for a few years did what it could. There Are some jews still alive who were saved by the polish people. I j am not one of the westerners who will believe almost any rubbish. I know from those who were there. You Learned things from some tabloid. A Steven Slawomir Slezak Nas Rota Spain where there a smoke. Behind the decision to make a smoke free air Force beginning june 1 was the belief that smoking just does no to project the image that the air Force strives for. It wants members to and fit. Tobacco and cigarette smoke is said to cause cancer. Although this May be an accurate statement,., Banning Pic from smoking in places i$.not. Going to make everyone else healthier and physically fit. What a the solution what else will the air Force ban a. If its True that we arc supposed to project a certain1 image and that health is such a big concern their there Are some other areas to be looked at and they Are. All right on eggs and Fried foods have All been linked to various health problems Tike clogged arteries heart disease and dangerously High Levels of cholesterol. Yet these items arc allowed to be sold to airmen everywhere. Does this show concern for the health of people a living longer and healthier is an admirable thing to be striving for but does no to alcohol interfere with that goal yet once again you can find it in Many installations on base. Why Hasni to the air Force done anything to discourage the. High level of alcohol that is consumed after All alcohol is not healthy. To Complete the total conversion to a healthier lifestyle How about removing the vending machines where people can buy those fattening sugary High calorie Candy bars or cans of soda. Fresh fruits and fruit juices would be. More acceptable to someone trying to adapt a healthier lifestyle. Consistency makes things More Credi ble. If the air Force really wants its members to live longer and adapt a healthier lifestyle people need to Stop zooming in on one area simply because they arc again sept personally and Stop turning a Blind Eye to other things. A airman 1st class Diane of Gucrin Raf Upwood England lets canc criminals i am overjoyed that Michael pay arc. Cei cd his punishment after All the ridiculous cries of a a torture and a inhumane bet he wont be in. Any Bie hurry to run Back out on the streets of Singapore defacing automobiles anytime soon livery time he sits Down for the next few Days weeks hell be reminded of his crime and the consequences of his actions. A a a y a a i think the United states could take a Page out of Singapore a Book and consider similar punishments for our criminals i also think that plea bargaining should be abolished. Fay claims he was coerced into confessing guilt because there was a Promise of leniency if he a a cooperated and told the truth. Why should confessing to his crime be any reason for cutting him some Slack a staff sgt. James a Pajon Aviano Italy r editors note we encourage our readers a especially those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us. Letters expressing readers viewpoints or opinions Are published daily on this Page. All tetters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a Temety manner. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Or fax 06155-601-463, Dan 348-8463. Commentary 1 no a Day hoopla in Lew Puller s War by Mike littw1n Early next month Bill Clinton and thousands of others will storm the shores of Normandy for the 50lh anniversary of a Day. They will come to commemorate that sad and heroic june Day when men risked their lives for a valiant cause eventually winning against enormous Odds. Maybe you saw the movie. In be been to Normandy. A in be been to lots of battlefields where history comes in easily digested lessons. Stand where Napoleon once stood and you get a sense of How the course of the world can change. Or you think you do anyway. Normandy was unexpectedly different. And hot just because the history is so recent and so clearly drawn. It was the War of great villains and great heroes a a War of few ambiguities. You always knew which Side to Root for. As i looked Over the Bluffs Down to Omaha Beach and tried to put myself where no Man should be tried to imagine How id measure up i Felt something entirely new pull at me. If you done to know the history they have markers to Tell of the 3,000 who died in the first hours on a Stormy Beach pelted by rain and German artillery. If you done to yet grasp the enormous Ness there is the cemetery Home to 9,835 Graves marked by Marble crosses or stars of David that stretch into the horizon. Suddenly i was choking Back tears. I did no to expect this to happen. I did no to know anyone buried there in a War fought before i was born. But i Felt this urgent connection that this was somehow about me. Then i understood. This was the War of my father. V a a a a a a arid its the War that is framed always and inevitably against my own War the one i did no to fight in the one that a forever close to the surface of my generations consciousness. Lew Puller fought in that War of course. You be read about his recent suicide and How 25 years after leaving his legs and parts of his hands in Vietnam he snot himself. Many would Call him a victim of the War that on some Levels seemed to have Only victims a in alcoholic despair Puller killed him sell but not before writing a Book that would win the pulitzer prize. Fortunate son was a Book about him and his father his War and his fathers War. His father was Lewis a a Chesty Puller the most decorated Marine of All time. Even As a land mine blew Lew pullers body apart he was thinking of How his father would have done better. My father was in that War. It was in retrospect of course that world War ii became a holy War. Everyone always knew Hitler was bad but we did no to get into the War to Stop the mail who engineered the holocaust. America stood in the sidelines until Japan forced our hand. Still it was a heroic War with a heroic ending. A great Victory with great Victory parades. A. A a Lew pullers War had none of that. A then it All caught up with him. And he killed himself. As he died we were forced again to remember what Many wish to forget. He died a month before we celebrate the memory of his fathers War arid a time when men could still be heroes. If you must fight a War it seems you Are owed at least that much. 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