European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 letters to the editor monday november 7,1994 thes european de Talon Cou Steven s. Hoffman Usan commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski editor. News and editorial Deborah Sabatier. News editor Bui Walker european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George Man City editor to write us unit 29480 apoae09211. Orost Facell 1437 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 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 208,400/ education a cml Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany eff Baltyn room 117, . 104, 69115 Hek Retberg Teton run Dan 370 7010 of civilian 06221-23421 Hetata 06221-10554. Kaisers uhf in Germany Kevin Dougherty John Bohmer end Doyle Tillman. 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Taking on Challenge the subject of the sept. 25 be our guest column contrary to assumptions led a real and meaningful life during the three years she lived in Germany about 12 Miles from Post in a Small Germantown. She entered fully into daily life of that town and its shooting club. She be came fluent in the language. She had a photography business ran a weekly writers group completed her associate s degree toured parts of Germany intensively and introduced numerous Mem Bers of the military to the Odenwald Darmstadt and  system. Her complaint with the army is that there is an unwritten unspoken expectation and intense pressure from the Mili tary Community for the wife of a company commander to run the company family support group and participate in All the obligations that go with it the support group training sessions the monthly com Pany level support group meeting the monthly battalion level meeting the monthly Coffee meeting and the monthly Hail and Farewell. This is a ridiculous Bur Den. No male spouse of a company com Mander is saddled with this Burden. The female commander is expected to run the company family support group and at tend All those meetings or designate someone from her company to do so. She does t expect her husband to do it. It took her a year to figure out she could say no More and extricate herself from All military obligations. It s not that she has a problem with Volunteer work. It s that she does have a problem with compulsory volunteerism even if it s hot demanded out right and she does have a problem with the plethora of military activities that continue to insulate the military Community from the country in which it works and lives. Platitudes and motivational speeches praising the military wife and her life give her no warm fuzzier. She is fully capable of making the Best of every situation but she d rather live now and fight passionately for a better life even if it Means just rattling the bars of my Cage. Christina Manning fort Polk la. Editor s note Christina Manning authored the column titled smearing the makeup of an army  on the horse will make them  learn by examples not by talk. Teaching our children How to win will make them competitive tomorrow. Teaching our children How to lose will prevent depressions and suicides. Eric a. Smith Mannheim Germany to garbage for mind thanks for ride no one can fail to be shocked and appalled at the latest in what seems amounting toll of children being murdered by children the stoning and kicking to death of a 5-year-old girl by her 6-Yeaf Oid playmates in  seems to me most significant is a statement by the Mother of one of the boys involved that her son believes  ple can get Back up after being beaten Down. Why does he believe this can it be that he has seen it dozens of times on television and in movies As the computer folks say garbage in garbage out this is As True for the human mind As it is for the computer. Jean d. Quintan la Maddalena Sardinia learning to lose can everyone be a Winner without a loser the youth sports program thinks  it really think the kids Don t know last summer i coached the Mannheim marlins Bantam baseball team on which my child played. I will say that we ayere not the Best team in the league. My kids kept better score of the games than the scorekeeper did. Trying to Tell a child that everyone won is a lie and they know it. We As coaches and parents need to teach our children that everyone can t Bea Winner someone must lose. Avoiding the Issue Only postpones the facts. Teach ing them How to recover and get Back i just wanted to write to you to Tell you something positive for your paper. I have been in Germany Only a few months and recently found myself stranded at Ramstein a with no Way Home to sem Bach a. Not knowing what to do i went into the red Cross building to seek help and a very warm generous caring woman named Beth came to my Rescue. Bet drove me All the Way Home to Sembach. The military Community needs More Good people like her. To Bennett Sembach a Germany to our readers let us know what you think we encourage our readers especially those who have never submitted a letter to write to us. Letters expressing readers View Points or opinions Are published Dairy on this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Or fax country code 49 06155 601-395, Dan 348-8395. We Reserve the right to edit letters Tor clarity length and taste. Commentary Buchanan has t lost fire Brimstone touch political activist Pat Buchan an s Coyer As a journalist As newspaper columnist to commentator has been even thinner than usual Buchanan was working the country on behalf of conservative Republican Candi dates often those with a religious right Bent. Would be governors for instance As in South Carolina. Congressional hopefuls Here and , on a slow Day Down ticket candidates. He gave a hand to a Georgia lieutenant governor candidate of iffy prospects Nancy Schaefer. His fire breathing Republican Conven Tion speech two years ago had Buchana spoiling for religious and cultural civil war.,. V perhaps because most folks ran for the Hills he is not always so Bellicose now. Or maybe he just does t have to be Buchanan s credentials As a Radical right Paladin Are hardly in doubt. Anyway Buchanan s real task was not so much to make a lot of noise on behalf of candidates As to certify them. On the Road he s Pat the Val Dator. All he had to do was show up and any doubters would understand that even candidates who seemed to have fallen into the sin of moderation were really one of us not one of the evil them. Schaefer for instance. She logged Only 11 percent of the vote in Atlanta s mayoral election last year As an avid religious conservative so Schaefer this time sensibly took the advice in the old Johnny Mercer song to a Cen Tom Teepen Tate the positive be lion Nate the  on the believe circuit lasters Spring she poked up hysteria Over out comes based education a somewhat Muzzy but benign school Reform program that has replaced secular humanism Ashe religious right s Bugaboo Dejour. Campaigning Schaefer talked of protecting children from abuse and of Mak ing the streets Safe sound Points but ideologically indistinct. It 6579 Nail to la the a 5canpal., Junior 15 acc Kep of , a Ponx Hal Fop 11 a bu5inz & a Socrate. -.-. At fund raisers for Schaefer in two Pri vate Homes Buchanan did t even need to break a sweat to Rescue the candidate from such necessary platitudes. A Little disdain for the United nations a swipe at surgeon general Joy Cheryn elders a Call to kill the depart ment of education and the Atlanta suburbanites were ready to take Over this country As Buchanan said they must. It was like knocking pm dead just by calling out the joke numbers to an Audi ence that knows the Book. At one of the Pep rallies a speaker introduced As a Christian financial writer warned that the country is dominated by Liberal groups. He lumped together somewhat oddly the american civil lib erties Union Sierra club people for the american Way and queer nation. To prevail against them he said we have to be As Wise As the  Buchanan in t saying whether hell try for the gop presidential nomination again but campaigning for others he has stayed in touch with his own faithful. Few doubt that he could go one on one with satan. A Cox news service hey non of them in jail y�tju5tm gotta