Published: November 04, 2009 10:02 am      

Words left out of letter changed its true meaning

Editor,

On Friday, Oct. 30, the Daily Record printed my letter entitled “No more war for profit and mind games.”

However, the letter was seriously distorted by this paper right at the paragraph that read, “America needs to get over millions dead in Vietnam and American soldiers babies left without support there also. What happened to them can happen to us.”

For the record, that’s not what I wrote.

This is what I wrote, “America needs to get over its culture of victory and superiority and remember the Trail of Tears and the millions dead in Vietnam and American soldiers babies left without support there also. What happened to them can happen to us.” That letter was about the Golden Rule, not Charles Manson’s morality.

However, not only was one word taken out of context, but 13 words were omitted, which resulted in a contradictory letter. Even I was embarrassed. Why would I ask for ending current nonsensical wars and express sympathy for those who have fought or been victims of war and callous cruelties? Why would I also say, “Extreme trauma lingers for generations in humans, and remember the dead Vietnamese people and American babies left without support too, because what happened to them can happen to us.”

Then say in conclusion, “America needs to get over casualties of war.” Why build war monuments if war is so easy to get over with?

I am not one of those psychopathic war politicians who cares nothing for its own or others. And have veterans begging to feed their families. Therefore, please correct that letter. Thank you.



Respectfully,

Ruben N. Gutierrez