Long ago while I was trying to become a responsible adult male, I learned that when you are wrong you admit your short-comings and try to change that wrong behavior. In that vein ...

To Steve Brown [former mayor of Peachtree City]:

Sir, I apologize for working against your re-election and not more thoroughly investigating some of the issues.

Time has proven you right on several points, although I am still not completely convinced that you were the correct person for the job.

Hindsight has proven you to have been truthful on those points.

One of my personal irritants is political double-speak, which I consider very close to knowingly telling something that is untrue. Political double-speak over several breakfast meetings is apparently what myself and several other veterans were fed.

Elections, politicians and political double-speak — now that is an entirely different ball game.

Again, sir, I apologize; perhaps I needed to take the cotton out of my ears and pay more attention.

Edward C. Ragan, II (Skip)

Peachtree City, Ga.