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Dear Editor:
This is a response to Ray Campos's letter last week whining about the word hello is fine. This is not the issue. The issue is standards. Our country was built on standards. We have the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Laws of many sorts that give us a standard by which we live. Now people seem to want to abandon all of these standards. And let me tell you, these standards are what made America great and what made people from all over the world want to relocate here. This is the land of opportunity and freedom, but may not be for long.
Let me tell you a story aboout a classmate of my huband's from Akron, OH. He has used the name Bob Wallace all of his life, but that not his true name. His parents were Polish immigrants and their family name was Solkolski. It was hard for the Polish to integrate in the Akron society at that time, so his father changed their name to Wallace. Bob never spoke of it for years, but now he's very open about it and proud of it. By the way, Bob is a teacher and is still employed at the age of 74. He had a heart transplant 15 years ago and is doing fine. What a blessing it is to live in the USA.
My point is people wanted so strongly to be American, they went to many lengths to become American. We don't want anyone to change their name anymore or ever for that matter. We just want immigrants to want to be Americans. Not Chinese in America, not French in America, not Hispanic in America. We want Americans in America - period.
This is why we need English as the offiical language. We want to go back to standards that made our country great. Remember the tower of Babel. What did those people accomplish?
Monica Morris
Dear Editor:
This country of ours has been and still is the best country in the world.
In the past 50 years we have slipped. This nation as a whole is not where it was with God. First we allowed Madelyn Murray O' Hare to put through a petition to remove prayer from our schools and this led the way to remove God's word from our schools. Today because of this, we have more crime and problems.
Roe vs. Wade was passed with little opposition from the Christian sector, and because of this, 50 million babies have been aborted.
These sins of America have to stop.
Let's work to get prayer back in the schools and let's over turn Roe vs. Wade now.
There is a bill to stop it. It's known as Life at Conception sponsored by Duncan Hunter HR6-18. You can find it on the Internet at Pro.Life Alliance.com.
Let us take back America for God.
Respectively,
Rev. Carlton Wetherell
Dear Editor:
In reference to your “Hello, not Hola” editorial, I would like to take issue with Ray Campos and his lettter of March 1 taking you to task over it.
I was born in Mirando City more years ago than I like to remember. It is a tiny town on Highway 359 (Highway 59 in those days) about 30 miles east of Laredo and the Mexican border. I spent about all of my life living south of the Nueces, east of the Pecos and north of the Rio Grande until I met and married a boy from Rockport and moved here in 1946. Our 61-plus years have taken us to all 50 states in the U.S. and about 84 countries around the world. We've lived in Europe and traveled as far as Kathmandu, Napal and as farwest as Xian, China. We have visited about 84 countries in all.
My husband served in the Marine Corps in WWII in the Solomon Islands, the Philippines and North China. He did find some use for his Spanish in the Philippines and we have been in many countries in the Western hemisphere, Spain and Majorica where Spanish is spoken but oddly enough Latin countries like Portugal and Brazil won't understand you if you try to use it there.
While living in Holland in the 1970s, a bus driver once told me (in Dutch) I should learn to speak Dutch. An old Dutch lady who remembered our GIs in WWII got up and dressed him down and told him, “You should learn to speak English. If you speak Dutch, you can speak it right here. If you speak English, you can speak it any where in the world.” I have found that to be very true.
Spanish and French are scattered around the world, also but they didnt seem to take hold like English. It probably has more to do with the money than we like to admit.
The important thing is to be able to communicate. You were right when you mentioned the failure of whole civilizations because of failure or inablity to communicate. English may not be the perfect or most desirable language, but it's the nearest thing in the world today to what could become a universal language. I think it is imperative we be able to talk to each other in order to co-exist on this planet.
If Senor Campos feels better saying, “good day, many thanks, God bless you,” and “hello” in Spanish, more power to him, but the fact still remains, he will reach a lot more people with the English words I have just used above.
In any case, buenas noches, y buena suerte, senor.
When the world is trying to communicate, may we find some language to make it possible.
Jean Kelly
This is a response to Ray Campos's letter last week whining about the word hello is fine. This is not the issue. The issue is standards. Our country was built on standards. We have the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Laws of many sorts that give us a standard by which we live. Now people seem to want to abandon all of these standards. And let me tell you, these standards are what made America great and what made people from all over the world want to relocate here. This is the land of opportunity and freedom, but may not be for long.
Let me tell you a story aboout a classmate of my huband's from Akron, OH. He has used the name Bob Wallace all of his life, but that not his true name. His parents were Polish immigrants and their family name was Solkolski. It was hard for the Polish to integrate in the Akron society at that time, so his father changed their name to Wallace. Bob never spoke of it for years, but now he's very open about it and proud of it. By the way, Bob is a teacher and is still employed at the age of 74. He had a heart transplant 15 years ago and is doing fine. What a blessing it is to live in the USA.
My point is people wanted so strongly to be American, they went to many lengths to become American. We don't want anyone to change their name anymore or ever for that matter. We just want immigrants to want to be Americans. Not Chinese in America, not French in America, not Hispanic in America. We want Americans in America - period.
This is why we need English as the offiical language. We want to go back to standards that made our country great. Remember the tower of Babel. What did those people accomplish?
Monica Morris
Dear Editor:
This country of ours has been and still is the best country in the world.
In the past 50 years we have slipped. This nation as a whole is not where it was with God. First we allowed Madelyn Murray O' Hare to put through a petition to remove prayer from our schools and this led the way to remove God's word from our schools. Today because of this, we have more crime and problems.
Roe vs. Wade was passed with little opposition from the Christian sector, and because of this, 50 million babies have been aborted.
These sins of America have to stop.
Let's work to get prayer back in the schools and let's over turn Roe vs. Wade now.
There is a bill to stop it. It's known as Life at Conception sponsored by Duncan Hunter HR6-18. You can find it on the Internet at Pro.Life Alliance.com.
Let us take back America for God.
Respectively,
Rev. Carlton Wetherell
Dear Editor:
In reference to your “Hello, not Hola” editorial, I would like to take issue with Ray Campos and his lettter of March 1 taking you to task over it.
I was born in Mirando City more years ago than I like to remember. It is a tiny town on Highway 359 (Highway 59 in those days) about 30 miles east of Laredo and the Mexican border. I spent about all of my life living south of the Nueces, east of the Pecos and north of the Rio Grande until I met and married a boy from Rockport and moved here in 1946. Our 61-plus years have taken us to all 50 states in the U.S. and about 84 countries around the world. We've lived in Europe and traveled as far as Kathmandu, Napal and as farwest as Xian, China. We have visited about 84 countries in all.
My husband served in the Marine Corps in WWII in the Solomon Islands, the Philippines and North China. He did find some use for his Spanish in the Philippines and we have been in many countries in the Western hemisphere, Spain and Majorica where Spanish is spoken but oddly enough Latin countries like Portugal and Brazil won't understand you if you try to use it there.
While living in Holland in the 1970s, a bus driver once told me (in Dutch) I should learn to speak Dutch. An old Dutch lady who remembered our GIs in WWII got up and dressed him down and told him, “You should learn to speak English. If you speak Dutch, you can speak it right here. If you speak English, you can speak it any where in the world.” I have found that to be very true.
Spanish and French are scattered around the world, also but they didnt seem to take hold like English. It probably has more to do with the money than we like to admit.
The important thing is to be able to communicate. You were right when you mentioned the failure of whole civilizations because of failure or inablity to communicate. English may not be the perfect or most desirable language, but it's the nearest thing in the world today to what could become a universal language. I think it is imperative we be able to talk to each other in order to co-exist on this planet.
If Senor Campos feels better saying, “good day, many thanks, God bless you,” and “hello” in Spanish, more power to him, but the fact still remains, he will reach a lot more people with the English words I have just used above.
In any case, buenas noches, y buena suerte, senor.
When the world is trying to communicate, may we find some language to make it possible.
Jean Kelly
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