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My grandmother died of breast cancer.
My sister-in-law is presently in remission thanks to a new drug.
A very dear friend and her husband have tried to get pregnant for some time. They found out they were and were overjoyed. Bad news followed good. They found out that she had a very aggressive form of breast cancer. She had to have a medical abortion to have radiation and chemotherapy. At this time she has lost a child and both breasts. The doctors have run out of options to save her life.
I think that given the above, I am more aware of the toll on lives than most. I've seen it up close and personal.
I have a real problem with Clarkston and Lewiston in its "Jog for the Jugs" campaign. There are billboards around town and placards in local shops showing a cartoon woman with large breasts and the words "jog for the jugs" written across her chest. Whoever came up with this obscene depiction should:
- Have his head examined.
- Have to take sensitivity training.
Linda J. Nuxoll
Clarkston
Blood on FDR's hands
Concerning Eugene Robinson's recent commentary:
In 1939, I was 10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was three years into his second term as president. He was a man who openly flaunted his mistress in the White House while Eleanor watched, a man who spent big tax dollars, in the early days of the Great Depression, on covering knowledge of physical defects from taxpayers, feeding his huge ego.
This was a leader who, knowing when Pearl Harbor would happen, as awakened fighter pilots were ready to fly and take down enemy bombers, were ordered to stand down. Just like Benghazi. FDR got America into World War II.
I remember the Jewish children being denied entry. Was there really a bill in Congress that was rejected? Also, there were English children allowed sanctuary here.
German Jews who chartered the St. Louis were not immigrating to the U.S. If memory serves me, they were to land in Cuba as refugees.
They were wealthy families taking possessions - priceless artifacts and collected items. They were able to support themselves and contribute to Cuban society.
Arriving, Cuban authorities would not allow them in, nor refueling or needed supplies, food and water. They came to our port, not demanding sanctuary, only wanting necessities for survival.
Wonderful President Roosevelt, who I suspect, had Jewish blood in his ancestry, turned them away with nothing. The 254 who later perished in the Holocaust, their blood is on his hands.
The horde at our border cannot possibly be equated with honorable Jewish people.
Flora Teachman
Kamiah
Becoming rare
I wonder if readers of the Lewiston Tribune realize how unique is the Tribune in America in this era of diminished journalism and corporate greed.
The opinion pages cheer and jeer fearlessly, attack corruption and venal politicians with glee, and generally live up to what reportage should be.
I write because this morning I read of the battle between the editors of the Denver Post and the paper's hedge-fund ownership. The latter group had stripped the paper's staff from 300 to less than 100, mining 20 percent profits annually, a too-common piratical exercise in ruthless capitalism.
Three top editors resigned.
Readers, treasure your paper, publisher and editors. You are lucky to have them.
Don Chapman
McCall
You were asking?
President Donald Trump is advocating that we arm schoolteachers. I am reminded of an early 1950s college newspaper cartoon that showed Professor Snarf holding a smoking pistol while he asks, "Any more questions?"
Donald S.
Matteson
Pullman
Adopt us
Loving, disabled family of four. Disowned by abusive relatives. We would love to be adopted, by loving family. Family does not have to be relatives, just caring. We are poor and loving. Take a chance. We trusted family and they showed us hate. The world is too small for hate.
John Runer
Clarkston
