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Thank you vets
When I contemplate all the incredible sacrifices that our military men and women – and their families – have made, I get misty-eyed and choked up. Thank you so much for your sacrifice and service to our country. Throughout the years, our servicemen and women have battled against evil around the world.
And now the evil of terrorism has struck again in Paris. Our daughter, doing a semester abroad for college, was in Paris during these attacks. She is safe, but words cannot describe a whole country in shock and mourning.
Remember after 9/11, how the churches were full, how we prayed in earnest? As evil seems to grow, we on the home front can combat it fearlessly through prayer. We are a great nation, and we can do great things through the power of prayer.
Mary Stolz
Forest Lake
Who’s to blame?
Who’s to blame for these massacres in Paris? I will tell you who to blame: the presidents, prime ministers and political power heads who invited, welcomed and accepted into their countries swarms of Muslim men who vocally tell us they are going to take over the countries they fled to, kill us and force sharia law on everyone.
Who’s to blame? The so-called leaders of the free world. Merkel from from Germany is the worst, along with the French president and Obama. These political leaders are all trators to their countries and should be tried and sent to prison. Their primary job is to keep their countrymen safe; instead they play with political correctness and invite their mortal enemies to come and destroy their countries. This would be like Jewish people inviting Nazis into their communities knowing the invaders would seek them out and kill them.
This is madness of the first order and has been calculated and carried out by the leaders you should have been able to trust. Wake up world. To not do so is suicide.
LaVonne Grant
Forest Lake
Obama’s complicity
The Norwegian Academy awarded President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, the justification being, according to Wikipedia, that he would create “a new climate in international relations, reaching out to the Muslim world.” Perhaps they thought that because he had a Muslim father, the president would be more attuned to the problems of that region of the world.
Earlier in our history, the Truman administration showed little interest in defending a new nation on a peninsula in the Far East. We allowed a vacuum into which the northern neighbor attacked. We did respond, and today we have 30,000 troops in South Korea.
Over the years, there have been attempts to remove those boots, but common sense has prevailed.
The Obama administration decided to pull our army out of Iraq and Afghanistan, probably to create a new climate in the Muslim world. Well, the climate did change in Iraq and was about to in Afghanistan. The radical Islamic State was created in vacuum created by our withdrawal.
The Obama administration is now trying to put the pieces together again and admits to no complicity in the tragedies that its actions have caused. We are told that we left because the Iraqis no longer wanted us there. You may remember we didn’t ask permission to enter in the first place.
Tom Obst
Wyoming