Letters to the Editor
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CHUMP CHANGE????? WHAT IF ONE OF THOSE SMALL COINS WAS YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER????
Bignose, I can't let that "chump change" remark go unanswered. I am absolutely appalled by the heartlessness of your choice of words. Yes, more people have died in Iraq. Yes, more people die in car accidents. But no death of any human beings, especially young people with their lives ahead of them, is trivial, and people have every right to ask in a situation like this what can be done to prevent future such events. Personally, as I indicated in an earlier letter, I don't for one minute think that "gun control" is the answer. On that subject, I'm a "liberal who has been mugged," a former proponent of gun control until a member of my family used a gun in self defense against burglars and is probably alive today because he did. But let's not try to argue the case by dismissing the significance of these brutal murders.
It's nice at least to see that President Bush intends to attend the memorial service. Someone finally got the guy's attention quickly this time; good thing he wasn't on vacation, or he'd undoubtedly still be clearing brush and joking with the media about his dogs. You don't suppose he might actually show up now at a funeral or two of the men he's sent to their deaths in Iraq, do you? Nah -- among the true believers, the party line is still that the casualty rates there are "incredibly low," and that those deaths also are "chump change."