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Letters to the Editor
  • Published
    September 12, 2013

    Gays, lesbians are treated like black people in movie

    I recently saw the movie, "The Butler," which is primarily about the civil rights movement in the 1950s and '60s. I felt sick, watching how the black people were treated in those days.

  • Published
    September 11, 2013

    Same-sex marriage law protested in France

    In the Sept. 1 edition of the Morning Sentinel, a photograph showed thousands of peaceful demonstrators who had walked across France to protest the legalization of homosexual marriage in that country.

  • Published
    September 11, 2013

    How can we afford bombs, but not schools, roads?

    I keep talking with people, and I keep receiving emails: Everyone seems so full of dread as we prepare to bomb yet another country about which we know hardly anything. Everyone is saying, "Please, please, not another war." "Please, no more bombing."

  • Published
    September 11, 2013

    Redistribution of wealth idea didn’t start with Obama

    It's amazing the overwhelming concern regarding socialism in this country. The redistribution of wealth is not a new idea invented by the Obama administration. Examples can be traced back to John Adams, who even though he was opposed to paying taxes to King George, had no problem taxing the colonists of their every possession to pay for the war. Even those who were still loyal to the crown paid these taxes.

  • Published
    September 9, 2013

    Many different signs welcome tourists to Maine

    Welcome tourists. Please enjoy your stay. You know you have arrived when you see this sign on the Maine Turnpike: "Welcome to Maine! The way life should be!"

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  • Published
    September 9, 2013

    Vets cemetery conditions deplorable, disgraceful

    I am writing to address the deplorable and disgraceful condition of Section R at the Veterans Cemetery in Augusta. I arrived in July from North Carolina and found the area dug up because of the headstone restoration project.

  • Published
    September 9, 2013

    We need answers to hard questions about Syria

    The United States incinerated more civilians in three days at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than have died in four years of civil war in Syria, yet it can take the high moral ground when it comes to the use of weapons of mass destruction?

  • Published
    September 8, 2013

    Finally, recognition for WWII pilot from our area

    This letter is about one of South China's finest. Alfred Kramer, a World War II B-17 pilot, was shot down over France returning from a bombing raid on Germany. The French resistance aided him in a safe return to England.

  • Published
    September 8, 2013

    Legislators urged to accept federal Medicaid funds

    Maine recently received a $33 million federal grant to improve efficiency and service in Medicare, Medicaid and the private health care market -- an important step.

  • Published
    September 8, 2013

    Climate change ‘makes all other crises irrelevant’

    I am encouraged to find out from Dana Milbank's Commentary on Aug. 27 that post-civil-rights rebels are looking for a unifying cause.