European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 12i letters to the editor tuesday june 14,1994ti�s%asipes european edition col Steven s. Hoffman Usan a a command w ii Ubibi Sher Bernard a. Zovistosk1 editor news and editorial bit wat ctr. A european de Tor Deborah Abaft or Bob Wicker Glt we mane news editor. Soorlis editor City editor to write us unit �9480 Apo a 09211 a or Postrach 11 14 37. 64 2 78 d Arm Siadto g Eim Ariy news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or is n 3j 8 b p i Extension As follows news ext. Z 37, 255. 252. 226, 326. Sports ext 225, 269, 263, 332,321, �21. Features ext 230, 245, 34 of letters to editor ext. 208. A a education Jimj Jones ext 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph own room 117, rime Rajtr 104, 69126 Heidelberg car its. By 1310, a -jpobcp9t a Taf Phon Dan 370-70id or cilia i 0536-23421 Lelela 06221 -27239. Kaiserslautern Germany kown Dougherty. 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Including or arts of Suppi agents door not constitute arvo orse Mont Fly the department at Delens cd the Star and stripes of the products or services must change the headline on the front Page of the May 15 edition of the stars and stripes read Quot cafes sales sliding As troops the same Day my Mother attempted to spend approximately $70 at the Exchange in Schinnen but was not permitted. The reason she was the wife of a Retiree. Apparently serving 261/2 years and two Tours in Vietnam was hot sufficient for the wife of a retired master sergeant to be allowed to use the army and air Force Exchange services facilities. This is especially disturbing in Light of the fact that most local nationals in just about any command have some sort of on Post privileges. This is simply because they work somewhere in the command. I be been in Europe for quite a while now and in be seen this More than once. Cafes is not in a position to turn away paying customers and it is Way past time that the policies regarding retirees using . Facilities in Europe were revamped 1 Hope someone at cafes is smart enough to make the connection Between the Quot sliding sales and the retirees not being Able to use their stores a sgt Richard e. My Stead Schinnen Netherlands. A. A a a whining retirees finally someone has told the Quot retirees what i have wanted to Tell them for years a that american taxpayers should not have to pay one cent for their exercise of the right to retire in a country other than the United states. I too have spent Many years in Europe and have enjoyed every minute of it. However after i sever my official relationship with the . Forces the . Government and its supporters taxpayers owe me nothing and i have no statutory or constitutional right to expect moreover to demand that american taxpayers expend their resources because i would rather live in Europe than in the United states. I have heard these jokers complain about having to travel to military installations to pick up and Cash their government checks and that they do not have the same priority As Active duty soldiers for care at overseas military hospitals. If i had my Way or if i were one of the congressmen receiving the numerous complaints about the Way retirees Are treated overseas id say Quot if you done to like the United states Well enough to live there then done to complain that we wont spend our limited resources to bring All inc benefits of being an american to the country you love to these whining retirees i say you had your Choice to either love the United states or leave it. Now that you chose to leave it a shut up. Of by the Way a 1 May be retiring Here in Germany soon. Could someone Tell me How i can stay in government quarters in Frankfurt free after v corps Headquarters moves to Heidelberg a James Brown Frankfurt Germany can to retire Early regarding your article Quot rules eased for army workers to retire Early a does my husband qualify he is a stateside hired 23xh-year civil service employee he is 65 years old he has received numerous awards and other recognition he has recently been nominated to receive the Superior civilian service award his Job title is on the list he is an american citizen. Does he qualify no they said because since last october he has been in a not to exceed Posi Tion Wil Flecken is closing in june. He accepted this assignment because the organization he was with deactivated and closed last year. When my husband applied for the Quot not to exceed position he was not informed by any of the three civilian personnel offices involved in this Transfer that As an employee with tenure he would stand to lose a number of benefits if he accepted this assignment. A Inge Fyfo German just too bad kids in response to Quot students and alcohol pc May 23i sure feel sorry for All the Little children at the University of Maryland. No one lets them have any fun. Ill bet the parents who support the kids against University officials when it comes to Leisure activities Are the same ones who would sue the residence life office if one of their Junior geniuses died of alcohol poisoning. A Perry Munyon Augsburg Germany 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 Dally on this Page. Am 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 letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Or fax 06155-601-463, Dan 348-8463. A commentary 1 history s importance brought to front lines by Eugene l. Meyer if a Day was the turning Point in the War perhaps its half Century commemoration Marks a turning Point in our perceptions of world War ii and most important at Long last the closing of the generation Gap. Born in 1942,1 am a product of the wartime baby Boom not the postwar baby Boom. I remember watching a be Day Parade from my parents new York apartment House. I Sang songs like Bell Bottom trousers because my Uncle Bernie was in the Navy in England. To me a the War Means world War ii and Quot postwar Quot the time after it. As the a Day commemoration approached some of my younger colleagues wondered what All the fuss was about i think perhaps they now know. Hearing the veterans Tell their stories americans Young have time and again expressed not Only admiration but also something approaching Shock As if they Hadnot had a clue. And indeed Many Hadnot. A Young colleague assigned to write stories about the a Day commemorations told me her High school exposure to world War ii had been limited to the holocaust the changing role of women and the internship of japanese Aine Picans. Or. Sex veep when you think about it. Aren t same sex marriages about commitment about taking person Mae responsibility it about Quot family values Quot these Are All important subjects but Why not also a Day the answer is that the pedagogical emphasis had shifted from the memorization of Quot dry facts to learning Quot critical thinking As if the two were somehow mutually exclusive. But thinking based on what opinions without facts Are plentiful a and worthless. In studying the importance of a Day the critical thinkers of the baby Boom generation of generation x and beyond could speculate on the consequences of a failed invasion. Consider the holocaust. A prolonged War would have meant Many fewer survivors a perhaps none to Bear witness against the holocaust deniers of today who appear to thrive on the ignorance of others tue failure of a Day might also have bolstered the German armies in the East slowing the russian Advance. While i suppose some anti communists might have applauded that Given what turned out to be the postwar Iron curtain Over Eastern Europe it would have at least delayed the liberation from the murderous nazis of Many Small towns. Among them was Voloshin in what is today the nation of Belarus. There almost All of my maternal european relatives perished before the russians arrived in july 1944, it was Only then that my Cousin Sim Cha Perski and other partisans could safely emerge from the nearby forests into the ruins of the town to try to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Had the invasion failed there might Well have been the terrifying Prospect of the nazis getting the atomic bomb first and using it. Hitler was already unleashing the first guided missiles the a is and v-2s, that terrified England even As the German War machine was crumbling. R these Are not irrelevant historical footnotes. They underscore the relevance for our lives today of important events of 50 years ago. Blame the current generation s aversion to history if you will on the 1960s. Indeed the baby Boomers a president Clinton among them a seem to be coming late to the realization that history matters. There Are objective facts there Are primary sources that cannot must not be ignored. The facts of history can surely be interpreted in different ways but the lesson of the a Day commemorations is that objective and irrefutable facts do exist a and matter in very profound important and lasting ways. C Washington Post Weil. In rather not think about it. Imean its Gross. But say Worthe Safe or argument. I Pip think about it. \ if you have a Man and then it a have another Man Well then you have two men and no women that Are May rep to these men. So right off the Bat they Pont Hai family style Valles. \ also what if they then Puca Chi prent weu.hma6 i Netherey be a Nobel in it for it ii pm
