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those who dont want to miss a Chance to exploit any mistake made by americans and milk it for All the Nega Tive propaganda its Worth it is probable that some of the insurgents who got shot threw Down their weapons mixed with the real civilians and claimed americans shot at them us forces do the Best they can not to in Jure civilians unlike the insurgents does anyone wonder Why these angry civilians never protest the suicide bombers who indiscriminately kill their people and claim so Many innocent lives is there a double Standard for americans if Afghanistan want an exporter of terrorism and opium which Are both world threats we  have to be there in the first place maybe if s time afghan Citi Zens took some responsibility and helped us forces to help them Ronald Beaudoin Camp Buehring Kuwait the pitch for Zama sports i would like to address three issues first i am writing to applaud Camp Zama morale welfare and recreation youth sports for changing girls softball from slow pitch to modified fast pitch someone has finally realized the disservice they have been doing to the Young ladies of our Community by making them play slow pitch softball these Young ladies stateside Peers play fast pitch the boys play real baseball and now our girls will play real softball i have two Young Daugh ters who will someday play softball and i am Happy that they will be treated like equals second i would like to thank stars and stripes for addressing the department of defense dependents school Japan soft Ball situation Over the last two years your articles Are making dents in naysayers arguments against changing to fast pitch in the Japan District High schools it is just too bad someone cant just make the Deci Sion and do it last year the excuse was the opportunities to play beyond High school Are not there so slow pitch will do this year we have the Money excuse the excuses Are getting old Here at Camp Zama if need be there Are a multitude of private organizations that would gladly do Nate the Money needed for softball equip ment for the High school girls to be Given a Chance to play real softball Korea and Oki Nawa found a Way to do it and we should be doing the same third would be a Knock against stripes High school basketball coverage this year Here at Camp Zama we had a boys Basket Ball team that went 290 in the regular sea son although unless you have some association to the High school you  know it stripes really dropped the Ball on a great Story i honestly dont think this is just a Basket Teh us what you think stars anti stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and Colum its that an published in the fief shaper and values letters on topics of importance in the jives of Mir readers All Fetters must be signed and roast include the writers address of base and Telephone number please limit ail tetters to 300 words we Reserve the to edit tetters for length taste and clarity Send your letters to us mail readers forum stars and stripes i unit 45002 Apo a 963375002 Myo 1060032 via fax from Japan 0334088936 Dan 2293271 Dan 2294271 email International mail stars and stripes Ball coverage Issue either it seems that some stripes writers have the inability to give Camp Zama the same positive recognition As they do larger bases my solution would be for there to be a daily not weekly or every other tuesday Section about youth and High school sports Here in the Pacific that Way everyone gets some recognition Jason Sheedy Camp Zama Japan How to improve news options i completely agree with writer of the March 4 letter too much Anna Nicole on an that members of the armed services should feel cheated by the dismal choices being presented on the american forces network news Channel that such choices Are often governed by the waiver of Broad casting royalties notwithstanding i have had my fill of the trash television on the Fox and Man by networks with their casts of political spellbinder the likes of Bill Oreilly and their Goeb Bel style regard for the intelligence of Media audiences it remains to be discerned whether such trash journalism represents a contrived in formation blackout or a profit oriented programming decision As the Cost of the con tent represents a minuscule financial in vestment compared to even the Cost of stars and stripes to this end upon my return to the states in april i am going to Contact my Congress Man and recommend that the authority of stars and stripes be expanded to include news Content on an i feel this represents a meaningful approach Given the Superior Quality of stripes compared to Media jerks like Bill Oreilly Tim Cole Al Deid air base Qatar errors in intelligent design the writer of the March 4 letter fool ish science Dogma makes a couple of mis takes first he confuses evolution of life doonesbury on Earth As studied and explained through biology with the makeup of the universe As studied and explained through astrophysics second he brings up his euphemism for god did it intelligent design As a plausible reason for Why things Are As they Are id is the new name for the completely discredited creationism id is nothing More than creationism in a cheap Tuxedo Why would an intelligent designer fill us with things that Are so Clunky goofy impractical or unworkable that they reflect the absence of intelligence we eat drink and breathe through the same Hole in out head choking and drowning Are leading causes of accidental death the Earth is three quarters covered by water and we Are land animals what Good Are nails on Little toes the appendix male nipples Knees that Wear out and Back problems from a spine that is Lousy at supporting our bodies nor does id explain conflict the Strug Gle for survival by All eying things and the inescapable tragedy evil pain and suffer ing in the world the argument for intelligent design is a interesting hypothesis but we find no evidence for purpose in nature millions of species went extinct and an intelligent de signer did nothing to ensure their survival natural causes acts of god such As Dis eases and disasters have extinguished great numbers of human beings even if we were to find what appears to be design in the universe this does not imply a de signer for whose existence there is insufficient evidence who designed the designer finally science is based on evidence not Wishful dreaming or Dogma Peter w Barber bad Mergentheim Germany Power struggle Cost chaplain regarding it Gordon Klinge Schmitt discharged after ruling Arti Cle March there Are several questions that have to be asked first there Are three branches of government executive legislative and Judi Cial the armed forces of the United states Falls under the executive Branch the pres ident is Over the military and he should be the one to reinstate Klinge Schmitt or at least order the Secretary of the Navy to do so second anyone i any Branch of the ser vice can and should not follow an order if it is an illegal order i feel that was Why Klinge Schmitt was drummed out of the Navy for not following an illegal order just because the supreme court disallowed prayer in schools and the name of god is not to be spoken in government buildings had nothing to do with the court martial that is the judicial Branch interposing the executive Branch that is the problem in this great nation today nobody knows what is really going on and one Branch of government is trying to stick its nose in the other two branches now nobody knows who leads what everybody wants to be the head of govern ment Cpl Larry Duskey retired Ohio by Garry Trudeau mom uuha7 Are you poin6 your room huh