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I had written a few opinion pieces about different things that were against Bush’s administration. I would like to thank the Times Leader for publishing them; I can’t say the same for the Citizens’ Voice. I don’t know why they didn’t publish anything of mine. Maybe it’s my education they didn’t approve of. Maybe my age; they know I’m past 80. Or they just don’t like my opinions.
I don’t use big words, but even the school children can understand what I write. I did have one person, he seemed well educated, who didn’t like what I had written on July 5. Mr. O’Neil responded on July 12, calling me a mad Howard Dean, ranting more than truth.
Well, Mr. O’Neil, I do not get my information from the Web site. I don’t own a computer. I get my information the old fashioned way, by studying history books. You also accused me of not knowing my history. I wonder if you know the Gettysburg Address, word for word, like I do. And you seem to think I don’t know anything about F.D.R. Well, sir, if you look in the New York Times Almanac, on the biographies of U.S. Presidents and turn to Franklin D. Roosevelt, I know by memory word for word, all of it. I know all my presidents and their wives’ names, and a lot more.
I also know a little of my geography. All the states, nations and their capitals in alphabetical order by memory and I started all this studying in my late 70s. I remember the Great Depression. I was just a young kid then, and how hard it was for my family and millions of others in Hoover’s time and then getting Franklin Delano Roosevelt, yes, how wonderful. Call me what you like, but I just tell it like it is.