No draft dodgers in this military family

No

draft dodgers in this military family

If obfuscation and

insult were her goals, I think Mrs. Saul succeeded in her

reply to my letter about the Confederate flag. On the

subject of historical clarity, she fell a little short.

I'm not sure what governor

from up North she was talking about, as Abe Lincoln was

never a governor. The North doesn't care what Southern

history anyone wants to believe because they don't care

about the Civil War or Southern paranoia. The

"gentler, kinder place" Mrs Saul talks about

can't be the same one where people of color were denied

basic human rights, couldn't vote and were often lynched.

As for me: my father was on

LCT 19, Flotilla 5, USN at 0900 on June 6, 1944, at Omaha

Beach. My uncle was on the first firebombing raids over

Tokyo. My cousin was wounded in Vietnam and I flew

fighters for 20 years.

There are no draft dodgers

in my family and I will live where I please.

Timothy J. Parker

Peachtree City