Letters 6/09/10

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

By JH Weekly User

Coverage of suicides
I have been reading the comments and different news articles. Personally, I see news articles in Driggs and Jackson have more in common than differences. Suicides are a serious issue and damage many. My little sister checked out in 1974 and that has weighted me down for over 36 years along with older sister and both parents, still alive. These events were never exposed back then and it seems as though too many today want to repeat the past rather than learn from it.

Starting in about 1966 people who I knew of at first then knew were dying in Viet Nam (sic) and always reported as heroes. I graduated high school in 1969 and by the end of that summer started hearing of classmates killing themselves, it was whispered to close people only in horror, we all cried if told. Most reasons related to the war. By 1971 as classmates returned I found out it was a problem in Viet Nam as well as Americans Killing other Americans. These events were not reported, only whispered among friends. Suppressing these events have profound, progressive, permanent and debilitating consequences.

In 1971 along with Bill Clinton, we dropped out of school and entered the draft pool. This was a calculated play based on President Nixon’s promise of not drafting anyone during October, November, and December. In January I received a new draft card with 1H on it, I escaped the draft and the war. Actually very few actually did it. At first my father, a decorated WWII Marine strongly disapproved but by 1974 when my sister killed herself, and the truth about the war was out I was extremely glad I missed that war. I never admitted what I did. Bill Clinton never ever admitted what he did and still says he never inhaled pot, lately saying he didn’t like it. How did he know if he liked it having never really tried it? Bill still denies many things which I believe is his ongoing problem.

During the 1980s I sought what I thought were a few simple questions on how to deal with these suppressed issues along with the woman I married dying way too soon of breast cancer. One thing progressed to another and on and on it went for 3 years once a week. Maybe now this extended story makes some sense if not by content but by length, these issues never end in your life, the only thing you can change is how you deal with them.

When Bill Clinton was elected I laughed and started telling some people what we had in common and what a joke it turned into. Time went on, he denied more issues, I admitted more and I am free of guilt, he had a heart attack. Sweeping this under the rug, suppression in family respect, or whatever you call it will effect [sic] you, your family, and everyone you know for the rest of your life. I know the professionals will back me up on this. The question for the objectors is are you sure and willing to accept the outcome?

The public debate going on this long is only proving my original point more correctly, “Those who refuse to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.”
 – Nick Senape, Alta, WY

BP must pay
Tell your Congressperson (and everyone else) to hold BP’s feet to the fire.  They are working feverishly in the legal arena to make sure their liability is limited with regard to the largest, man-made, environmental disaster in history.

This could have (should have) been prevented.  This is a direct result of the previous administration’s lax oversight of their big oil cronies.  The acoustical regulator switch requirement (mandatory, even in Brazil) that would have prevented this disaster of yet unknown proportions, was taken out of legislation that Cheney allowed the oil industry to write just a few years ago. 

This NEEDS to be made public and understood.  Oil corporations are the most profitable entities in human history.  BP makes $42 million a DAY profit on average.  They need to pay and pay and pay for a long time to even come close to making things right for society economically.  Sadly, they can never again make things right for the Gulf environmentally.
– Phil Round, Wilson


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