Letters to the Marshfield News-Herald

Editor MNH:  11/02/04
Fragments, Memories of a Childhood 1939-l948 was published in l996. In this book the author, Binjamin Wilkomirski, relates that he was born a Jew in Latvia, was separated from  his parents at age three, was sent to Auschwitz where he endured living hell. The book received numerous awards and was added to the extensive holocaust selection of the M. Senior High School Library...

Is it all a farce? In 2006 the State of Wisconsin had an election combined with a referendum: “Same sex marriage,  or a functional equivalent of marriage: Yes or No?” The people voted: “No.” But  Governor Doyle ignored the will of the people, legislating domestic partnership. In the MNH  (9/29/2009) under the heading:  Domestic partnerships, I found this announcement: “Joyce K Bittner and Barbara...

Editor MNH:  (6/7/03)
Something doesn’t make sense. I am referring to the editorial  in the M. News-Herald (3/11/03) “We’re debtor nation for foreign docs.”  Let me quote: “It is good for U.S. clinics, hospitals and patients that we are able to attract doctors from other nations, but not good for the countries where the doctors were born and educated.” My comment!  If  the attraction  for  the...

To Editor: MNH
11/25/09
In the spring of 1945 when the American Army rolled into Mering they torched its archive. Mering’s history was redocumented by following the paper trail, using letters, news paper clippings  found in private hands and  documents referring to Mering  in neighboring communities. There is an extensive German paper trail documenting the disenfranchisement,  deportation and...

MNH:  6/11/02
 The framers of the American constitution, educated men and well versed in European  history did not want the religious conflicts of the Old World to become part of the new one. Therefore the first Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …” in other words politics is to butt out of religion and religion to butt out of  politics. Congress...

Editor MNH:  1/8/05No, Rev. M-W , it is not the fear of the other which makes us, the heterosexual majority oppose legalizing same sex unions. Sex between a same gender couple is like the couple sitting in a car which has no connection between the motor and the wheels. We neither fear nor hate this couple, but think it  silly  to give them a driver’s license when their car  just sits in the...

In front of me is  the article W.W.II veteran’s extraordinary tale makes it onto canvas, video ( M. News-Herald  2/15/2002). Clarence M.,  a sergeant of the U.S. Air Corps stationed in Northern Egypt was shot down  on Sept. 14, l942 by German anti-aircraft fire  while attacking a German air base. His leg was so badly burned that the doctors could pick up his skin like tissue paper. However he...

Editor MNH  8/22/02
What is sauce for the goose is not always sauce for the gander. What fits one society is not always befitting another. In classical Greece a sex-love relationship between an  adolescent boy and a man was accepted, in Sparta it was even desired . In Sparta an elite, the former conquerors, ruled over a disenfranchised majority. This elite could only maintain its position through...

7/14/00 Editor, N.H.:
The mothers’ rally for strict. gun control in Washington, D.C, and the subsequent shoe exhibit on the sidewalk leading to the Wildwood Park pavillion were touchy-feely events. Thought was not involved. But without thinking we are like reeds in the wind easily manipulated to act against our own self interest.
We are supposed to willingly disarm ourselves while the criminals...

8/20/99 Editor N.H.: 
On July 12, l999  the M.N.H. printed a letter by D.S., Chair of the Commission on Religion and Race of The Wisconsin Conference of the United Methodist Church, and S.W., Chair of The Wisconsin Conference Board of Church  and Society.  In this letter these two  people urge support and passage of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. I am writing this letter  to oppose the passage...

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