A storm named Sarah

Once again, Hillary has been upstaged by the “other woman.”

Hurricane Sarah has arrived on the mainland to take the country by storm.

Larry A. Smith, Shedd

See history in balance

After reading Mrs. Kenagy’s latest version of modern Middle East history, I felt the need to respond to some of her statements.

Over the past months she has repeatedly heaped blame on Israel as the single reason for all of the area’s problems, past and present. She stated that Israel’s reply to multiple attacks within a day of its birth as a nation were exaggerated.

The attackers were in fact not of the 5,000 mostly Jordanian troops she mentioned but Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, and Tirgis whose troops attacked Israel within hours of her emergence as a nation. Armies do not suddenly spring from the air; it takes quite a bit of planning, supplies, etc., to be in position for an attack of any scale. This is not my version of what took place on May 15, 1948, but is taken from several reliable sources including “Time World Almanac.”

During the 1960s my wife heard a young Israeli girl address a group of women at a missionary meeting. When one of the women asked her what her greatest fear was as she was growing up in Israel, she replied, “The Syrian planes that flew over my area almost daily.” The people felt it was done for intimidation purposes.

As a teacher of history, I always encouraged my students not to rely on one source but to use several and double check the facts. Sources should be from various viewpoints and also balance both sides of an issue.

Charlee W. Chandler, Tangent

Aware of Lebanon recall?

By now we hope everyone has heard of the attempt to recall Lebanon school board members Rick Alexander and Josh Wineteer.

CARES, a group made up of local citizens, is heading up the recall effort. We’re gathering signatures from Lebanon voters in support of a recall election which will determine whether or not Mr. Alexander and Mr. Wineteer stay or go.

There are dozens of reasons why we support a recall, ranging from certain board members’ willingness to expose the district to legal liability to their insistence on adding items to meeting agendas at the last minute, which deprives the public of the chance to participate in the process. In fact, there are far too many reasons to list here.

For more information on why CARES supports a recall, or to find out how you can help with the recall effort, see our website at lebanoncares.wordpress.com or e-mail us at lebanonrecall@yahoo.com

Connie Schmidt, Lebanon

A complaint about recall

I do not know how the persons are picked that stand by businesses to get us to sign a recall. But I will tell you that I have talked to four of them at different places and I expressed my opinion that I would not sign to recall the two of the best they have. The guy at Safeway told me that Rick Alexander had cost him thousands. I said, “This is not about your personal problems, it is about the education.”

This morning at the post office, I said I would not sign because of them being the best. The lady there, along with a man, yelled at me that I did not know what I was talking about.

Four out of four have been very rude. I will be glad when I don’t have to be attacked by them any more. And I do hope the recall fails. If it is not broke, don’t fix it.

Sharon Bursell, Lebanon