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Dear Editor, At the recent West Point Commencement Ceremony, where President Trump, sans wearing a protective mask, which is strongly recommended by virtually all medical professionals, gave the commencement speech honoring the Academy’s 2020 graduates. The President was seen as having a great deal of difficulty simply raising a glass of water to his lips, needing both hands to navigate the vessel to its desired destination. And he was also was seen to have struggled mightily down a nearby ramp, walking gingerly one step at a time when exiting from the event. I find it, although ...

Needed Speech

Dear Editor, The transforming speech in response to the police murder of George Floyd that Donald Trump should have been inspired to make is the following speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 4, 1968, in response to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. “I have bad news for you, for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight. Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings, and he died because of that effort. “In ...

The blame lies with Trump

Dear Editor, As President Donald J. Trump is currently very aggressively engaged in a very vigorous campaign to attempt to place the responsibility/blame for the coronavirus pandemic tragedy in the United States on China as well as others, how is it explained that we, the greatest nation in the world, with the finest medical professionals and resources are, and long have been, the very epicenter of this global disaster, even though the vast majority of other nations were confronted by the deadly pandemic earlier than we were. Now, sadly, the United States of America, with 4.2% of the ...

Survival

Dear Editor, A story: Long ago, cavemen learned to make fires. They learned it fended off predators, such as saber toothed tigers, very huge saber toothed bears and a NEW corona virus attacker with a HUGE far spreading bite. The cave clan kept the fires burning. On the other side of the valley, the neighboring clan felt they needed more protection. So, they built a “government” to protect them. The “government” told them to stay in their caves. They did so. Their fires went out. They were cold, hungry and the beast came upon them. The “government” found it’s way to ...

PTT/Daelim dragging their feet

Dear Editor, In reference to the latest announcement (last week) of yet another delay by Daelim/PTT: This only serves to reinforce and further the doubt held by many people of this project’s long-term effect on the health of the region. Are we surprised? A question worthy of consideration: If it weren’t for the latest COVID-19 pandemic preoccupation, would the project have been ‘full steam ahead’ by now? It’s something to ponder. Daelim/PTT just keeps us hangin’ on. Jeff Aland St. Clairsville

Hope

Dear Editor, Our nation and the world is under a terrible plague at the moment. We face possibly the worst pandemic since 1918. We are uncertain of what will happen to us and our loved ones. This is an unseen enemy and tonight my wife reminded me that there is one whose evil is even greater than this disease. In the book of Ephesians 6:12 we find the following verse. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly ...