Stars n Moons 3/21/07

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

By PJH Staff

That there speech team done good
Good thing I’m not a member of the Jackson Hole High School Speech and Debate Team because I surely would have detracted from the point total that won them third place at states.

Congratulations to the team and to the three JHHS students who qualified to represent the Wind River District at the National competition this summer. Sophmore Nina Palomba, Junior Jordan Schreiber and Senior James Hockett will head to the Sunflower State (Kansas that is) June 17-22.

Six other students also qualified as alternates. In a remarkable streak perhaps unparalleled by any other local high school club or team, JHHS has qualified students for the national tourney nine years in a row.

Tonight, oratory enthusiasts have a chance to see these talking, debating all-stars in action.

Join the Speech and Debate Team 7-8:30 p.m. in the high school library as they present various pieces from this year’s circuit.

Also stayed tuned to help the team raise money to send these kids to nationals.
— Melanie Stein

Four Years Gone
Whether you believe the United States’ “War on Terror” is good for the country and the world or that it’s a bloody boondoggle of epic proportions, it’s only appropriate to observe Monday’s fourth anniversary of occupation of Iraq with solemn reflection.

So far, more than 3,200 American troops have lost their lives there, and an estimated 25,000 have been wounded.

No one has any real idea how many Iraqis have been killed or maimed in the chaos, and it would appear that we’ve all lost count of how much the country have spent on toppling the despotic regime of the late Saddam Hussein and attempting to facilitate a transition to a peaceful, democratic form of government.

Some U.S. officials have all but given up on that goal, saying the Iraqis and the world will just have to accept a certain amount of violence for the foreseeable future.

It is the nature of human beings to glean even a little good from even the darkest evil. I suppose getting rid of Saddam counts.

Other than that, all we can hope is that a lot of families and communities that lost sons and daughters, mothers and fathers came closer together in their grief.
— Richard Anderson
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