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OPINION |
The Prater's Creek Gazette 16th Issue Winter 2007 Page #4 |
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Irving O. Tarbox Editor My Christmas WishesThis is always a time for us to reflect on our lives with the stirrings of long ago holiday memories and the coming of a New Year. As I sit here thinking about things, I wish there was a Santa Claus, because I’d ask him for a lot of things.First of all, I would want all of the hunger in the world to come to an end. I sit here filled up to the eyeballs with Hamburger Helper and many in the world go hungry tonight.I wish our troops were home for the holidays.I wish this drought that has dried up all of the lakes in the upstate, and northern Georgia would end.I wish there would be no more wars. Hey, I’m not some Hillbilly Pollyanna sitting here thinking that everything could really be peaceful, but I’m wishing here!I think about little Salee Allawee the ten-year-old Iraqi girl who was in Greenville being fitted for prosthetic legs at the Shriner’s Hospital. Salee lost both of her legs after American bombs hit her house.I wish George W. Bush could have spent an hour with her to be reminded of what his war is doing. I would wish Dick Cheney could have done the same but…OK, I wish Cheney had a heart.I wish Salee could have been here in the USA for the Christmas holidays. She would have loved it. And hey, what could be better than converting her to Christianity as we celebrate the birth of Jesus?I hope no harm ever comes to this little girl, or her family ever again.Letters To The Editor I think it’s terrible the messages that young people in this town are getting from the music they listen to! I ain’t talkin’ ‘bout that rap junk, I’m talking about bluegrass music. All the song are about love gone wrong, killing, and drinking. And some contain all three like that song “Little Glass of Wine” by The Stanley Brothers. That’s just plumb awful! And The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show sing about drinking and driving too fast in that “Roadrunner” song. They even do that old song “It’s A Shame To Whip Your Wife On Sunday” and they got many others just like those!
I think we as parents need to censor our children from this type of music.
Mary Johnson 115 Terrapin Crossing Prater’s Creek, SC |
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