We Get Letters – June 2009

Editor’s Note: We have sure enjoyed reading the many online letters and comments to articles. We’ve decided to share some highlights with you here.

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Valley Bugler Inspires

Just wanted to send you a message. We discovered your newspaper recently and for the first time we enjoyed reading a newspaper. We know there’s a lot of bad stuff out there but it doesn’t usually inspire. Your paper however gave us an uplift that lasted long after we finished reading the paper. Thanks!

- GAIL GALLANGER, eMAIL

“Massage Therapy works for cancer patients, too”

That is really neat. Massage can truly be a huge blessing to people. I like to bless my family that way, just by massaging their shoulders, and my sister Darlene with her fibromyalgia. I understand how she (Jeni Quiriconi) feels about it. You can’t often take away someone’s pain or problems, but massage is something you can physically do to help someone. That’s wonderful she does this for the very ill and dying. God bless her!

- ROSIE, ONLINE

“Sack Lunches”

A-men! What a neat object lesson in practical application of the Golden Rule …
Thanks VERY much!!

- WILLY GOMEL, ONLINE

“Jury Duty”

Ah, jury duty. I have to say, I avoid it like the plague, even though my company pays me a full day’s salary to serve. I can’t make a judgment on an actual human life. I want to let everyone go. Oh, I’m great at aggressively arguing down philosophical opponents. But my arguments don’t result in that person’s being thrown in jail, or even–God forbid–being executed.

I just don’t want to do it.

My 85-year-old father, OTOH, loved every minute of his time in the docket, and was greatly disappointed when he didn’t get a murder case….

- TREV, ONLINE

“The Gift of Leo”, MommyTalk May Issue

So glad Leo is doing well and I can fully understand how you now wonder what you were so worried about. It’s just a pity that so many people who get a prenatal diagnosis are given so much negative information that they opt for termination. Perhaps if more were given the opportunity to talk to people like (Kelly) there would be less making decisions that they later regret.

- PENNY GREEN, ONLINE