SPEAK OUT

Explain, please

I'M CALLING in response to the caller who complained about people criticizing him for wearing a ball cap when he's eating. I would like him to explain what good it does him to show that he can eat with his cap on. He must get some satisfaction out of it, or he wouldn't do it.

Deserving care

I THOUGHT the Speak Out comment about deserving care was very good down to the last sentence where it says, "I deserve good health care." What makes a person deserve good health care? Is this appointed someplace? I don't see where the word "deserve" fits in.

Police presence

I'M FROM Arkansas where police officers and highway patrol troopers take their cars home and drive them all over the counties and the state. I think it helps for the protection of our children with the presence of the police and the police cars around town. The criminals really don't know if the police officers are on duty or off duty.

A fine tribute

IN SUNDAY'S paper there was a wonderful tribute by Rex Rust to his father. It was so sweet I read it a second time. If all the dads were like Gary Rust, there would be much less juvenile delinquency.

Caring for roads

IN RESPONSE to the person questioning the genius whose bright idea it was to patch the blacktop roads north of Cape. This is the same genius who calls out road crews on snowy winter nights to put down cinders so you can have a safe road to travel to work the next morning, who calls out a work crew when a windstorm blows trees across the roads and who has crews mowing the right of way. Yes, they do have to patch the roads in the hot summertime and put up with impatient people speeding around them putting their lives in danger.

Teacher works late

MY MOTHER is a teacher at Notre Dame High School, and she may leave the building at four o'clock in the afternoon, but she is up till ten most nights grading papers. She stays after school at least once a week working with students who need help.

Let us vote again

I DON'T know why the university doesn't put the River Campus to a vote again so the taxpayers can vote it out once and for all. It will never pass, and the university is not entitled to any of the hotel-motel tax that the city is collecting. So who will fund the project? Forget it.

Graveyard rudeness

I JUST went to the graveyard to see my father's grave on Father's Day only to find a woman with her two dogs letting them take care of their business on the graves. This is very degrading. I think it's very rude and uncalled for.

Honoring survivors

MY FATHER was a veteran of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy. He was in the first wave at Omaha Beach on D-Day. Yet because he died in 1979 he is not being honored by Missouri. It strikes me that Missouri isn't honoring World War II veterans but World War II veterans who happened to still be alive. It's a disappointment.

Chinese blockade

I WONDER how many Americans are refusing to buy Chinese products. China would not let American workers go in and disassemble the spy plane. It wouldn't let them go in and work on it to fly it out. It wouldn't let a U.S. aircraft carrier dock in their harbor to pick the plane up. The United States has good ammunition to fight this with. The politicians in this country need to turn those ships around that are bringing that Chinese junk into our country.

Worse than roundabout

JON RUST was accurate in his observation that there are "worse things in the world to confront" than the roundabout. At the top of the list would be the Mount Auburn-Hopper Road four-way stop.

No finer man

CAPE COUNTY prosecutor Morley Swingle has had the unmitigated gall to criticize the ethics of former public administrator John Ferguson. I have known Ferguson for 40 years. Never a finer man has walked the face of this Earth. For Swingle to suggest Ferguson is acting in a "morally repugnant" fashion is so far out I have no alternative but to believe Swingle's prosecutorial zealotry no longer has any grounding in rationality nor basis in reality.

He'll be re-elected

TO THE Speak Out caller who says it will be 3 1/2 years until Bush is gone: You need to rephrase that to 7 1/2 years. Bush is going to be re-elected.