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Editor:
Like many others born and raised in Rappahannock County, I harbor an unspoken, abiding love for her people and her beauty. I support efforts on the part of her residents to assure that Rappahannock’s beauty and charm will not be despoiled, by anyone. As you may have gathered, I, too, am concerned about pollution, having walked along mountain streams in the county only to have a tranquil thought or moment interrupted by a floating beer can. Country lanes, shaded by oaks and maples, fenced with chestnut rails, are all too often cancerous with litter and garbage. This type of pollution is totally inexcusable—the result of careless, thoughtless, insensitive actions.
Yet, there is another kind of pollution that, to some, is not so evident, and to others, painfully so. This is the pollution of the soul that invades a father when he is unable to provide sufficient necessities for his family because his job. if he is lucky enough to have one, doesn’t pay enough to enable him to pull hisTamily out of the quagmire of poverty. This type of pollution is particularly well known to every family that has seen its sons and daughters leave home and the county because economically they just couldn’t make it. Critics of KMC-Front Royal are wont to say that “the plant needs the workers more than the workers need the plant’’ — a debatable point. It just may be that Rappahannock, like some other rural Virginia counties, needs a basis for economic stabilization
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