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Dear Editor:
Our constitution says “the majority rules,” yet if one person says “you can’t pray in school” or sing the National Anthem, they are the majority. Why is that?
From the very beginning of our nation, until after Woodstock in the ’60s, we were a solid christian nation with deep religious morals. During the ’60s Woodstock, where drugs, sex, alcohol and murder went unpunished, this was the beginning of the downfall of morals that continues today. People are afraid to walk down the streets at night. Our community leaders are afraid to speak up for what is right, or afraid today’s standard is not politically correct – although our president says “our flag is a symbol of aggression,” think of Iwo Jima in WWII.
I am proud to say I am a christian. I am proud also to say I spent three years of my life in Vietnam doing what my country asked, coming home in uniform and having urine splashed on me and spit on. This would never have happened in WWII for the perpetrators would surely have been arrested or killed. We were promised change – well look around, you got your change.
When our country was formed, almost every man, woman and child helped in the battles that were fought. Every government building in Washington DC has some religious symbol, such as the Ten Commandments, and flies a United States flag. Did you know that during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, the Capitol Rotunda was used as a church? Incidently, the dome is lined with Bible pictures.
To all of you who wanted change from what worked for this country for 260-plus years, we were the leading nation, look where we are now. We are at the bottom of the totem pole taking whatever is thrown at us. I hope you are proud not to be an American patriot, but whatever you think you are.
I was born and raised in this city, am a member of the class of 1949, and had planned to attend the “Olde Guard” luncheon, and the All-Class Reunion, but as a patriotic christian, I cannot justify coming to this city and plan to boycott both of these affairs.
East Liverpool leaders, you have failed the citizens of East Liverpool. Just my opinion.
Richard N Peterson, LTC Retired
Frisco, Texas