[Editor's note:

This column originally appeared three years ago in The Citizen.]

B+

for Bush on first foreign policy test

Editor-at-large

I'm kind of surprised

that some critics are trying to paste the "wimp" label on

the president over this little incident in China.

This

month, help Friday Johnson

By

CAROLYN CARY

Contributing Writer

Who is Friday Johnson?

After

China crisis, I'm sorry for . . .

One

Citizen's Perspective

Some editorials

appearing in U.S. newspapers in recent days have criticized the President

for apologizing to the Chinese government for the mid-air collision

that resulted in the death of Chinese fighter pilot Wang Wei, and an

11-day standoff for the captured crew and pilot of a U.S. surveillance

mission.

Health

police: Fun is hazardous

MURPHY

Laugh Lines

Everywhere you look

today, you see the "Health Police." They are the guys who

tell us what is wrong with what we eat. Who are "They" anyway?

Is there a "Department of They" somewhere in Washington where

all these experts get together and decide what is and isn't good for

us?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Confederate

Memorial Day to be observed

The Gen. LaFayette

McLaws Camp 79, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), will be sponsoring

its annual observance of Confederate Memorial Day on Thursday, April

26, with a special ceremony at the gazebo at Heritage Park in Fayetteville.

The service will begin at 7 p.m., and will feature bagpipes, presentation

of the Confederate colors, and a keynote address by James Fowler. Mr.

Fowler is a Georgia history teacher in the Coweta County school system,

and he is a member of the Commander John McIntosh Kell Camp 107 SCV

of Spalding County.

Why

aren't there outcries over Confederate support?

I must admit I'm

a fairly new resident to Fayette County, living here just under two

years. However, I am an Atlanta native. I accepted Christ as my personal

savior at the age of 14. In reading the Wednesday, April 4 edition of

The Citizen I was horrified to see the front page article entitled,

"Fayette's last living 'real daughter' of the Confederacy, 109,

is recognized."

Lots

of pilots make a lot less than many people think

Mr. Beverly, I am

writing in response to some of the comments you made at the end of your

column in regards to pilots and strikes.

Forget

the techno-gadgets; please, buy our school kids basic, useful desks

In 1998, 1999 and

2000, we Fayette voters were called upon to vote on the financing of

our public schools. Between the 1998 and the 2000 elections, we also

had the opportunity to change the personnel on our Board of Education

(BOE). Some may think our work is now done, but this is no time for

those of us who care about the public education of our children to be

complacent, as we've given the BOE the opportunity to spend large sums

of money, including the opportunity to misspend a lot of it.

Former

PTC Clerk: Festering intrigues, politics

After reading a

recent article in The Citizen Newspaper concerning the city clerk position,

I feel that it could have been misconstrued by some of your readers

that I had initiated a sexual harassment complaint against Councilman

Dan Tennant.

More

opinions about Delta, unions, strikes

Change

is needed . . .

I have been a Delta

flight attendant for 23 years, and a union activist for the past six

of those years. Lately there has been a lot said of Delta, much of it

negative. I found your article very interesting because it captured

many of the thoughts that Delta employees have experienced lately. It

is very difficult to characterize what the workers of Delta have gone

through in the past several years.

Delta

retirees will suffer from a strike

I am a 61-year-old

retired Delta station manager who is now a Methodist pastor. I worked

for Delta from May 1959 to November 1993.

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