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itor has ignored my plea, I must return once more to my word processor.
Mr. Putnam is unhappy with our country and its people for their love of violence and their passivity toward violence. I agree that violence is bad. The violent should certainly muster some self-discipline and stop being violent. The people I feel sorry for are those poor lost souls who are passive in the face of violence. I mean, what are they to do until those nasty, violent people stop being violent? I am at a loss to see how they can please Mr. Putnam. They can’t be violent and they can’t be passive. Unfortunately, the simple, Sunday-school world of good and evil is full of such thorny dilemmas.
Mr. Putnam tells that the U.S. should not sell arms, that we should feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and stop child abuse. He has a vise-like grip on the obvious. But, like a latter-day Jane Fonda, he leaps just a bit too eagerly into the spotlight to trash his own country when things get unpleasant, and, like Jane Fonda, he argues with a disingenuous piousness that I find annoying. We get the feeling, reading his letter, that all Americans are mean-spirited and in need of salvation, from the President all the way down to our unworthy selves - all, notice, except for Nol Putnam, who has taken pains to imply that he, for one, is on top of the situation.
The war, for better or worse, has happened, and I am not in the least offended by the flags and yellow ribbons.
BILL FITZSIMONS
Flint Hill
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