The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 35, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 October 1967 — Page 16

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CAPITOL M COMMENTS k U.S. Senator Vanca I HARTKE

A LETTER FROM AN INDIANA MOTHER Two years ago a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the nation that if only we would place 125.000 troops in South Viet Nam we could force Hanoi to its knees. Last year at this time this country was being conditioned to bMieve that 400.000 men would bring a military victory. This year our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines in Southeast Asia will approach 600.000 of the more than 3.000.000 Americans in the armed services. Do these staggering figures tend to become meaningless? Do we forget that the seemingly, endless statistics are made up of people just like us? All of us in the Senate receive mail from constituents describing how the continual escalation of a foreign war thousands of miles away is touching their families at home. I would like to share such a letter with you. The writer is an Indiana mother of four sons, speaking to us from the anguish of her inner heart. There is poignancy in her words, not bitterness. But there is a quiet protest when she writes: “lake Rome, we are rotting from within because the cream of our crop is being sent to foreign lands to fight impossible wars”. Star City. Indiana Dear Senator Hartke: “Our third son left for his tour of overseas duty yesterday. He goes to Thailand, the Vietnam of four years ago. “He cried when he left and, needless to say, I cried too—not only for him but for the thousands of other young men who are laying their lives on the line for our country. I love them all, and I wish it

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were in my humble power to stop their merciless slaughter. “To see a stalwart, fine youth cry, and yet not turn back, does something to a mother. I had to write this letter. I considered writing our President, but decided that writing to you might receive more attention. You have had time for a i family, and you had time to write a congratulatory letter to our fourth son. a scholarship winner, this spring. "Bob spent a 30-day leave here at home with friends and relatives. He helped his father and his father-in-law. He fished and he swam and he came to the end of every day for family eating and fun with a zeal that a mother wishes she could see in her son every day. i “Now he is gone. Our daily pray- ' er will be that he and all our servicemen will return safely. Yet daily we are faced with the printed or spoken word that a friend, a neighbor, another mother’s son, another I woman’s dear husabnd, did not return. Cannot those in power see the wrath of our God in the tragedy on I the mighty Aircraft Carrier Forrestaj? “Our complaint is not that our son had to go, but that there is absolutely no justice in his having to {go. We arc thankful that two sons j have returned safely, since my husband and I each lost brothers in World War 11. Our fourth son has been a wheelchair patient all of his life; at least he will not be sent off to a foreign war. Perhaps it is more merciful. i “There seems little justice because we at home are left with those who steal from us who have sent our sons; left with those who wreak vandalism upon community properties, and who incite riots and arson in our cities. We have no pull.

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Ollie Schlotterback To Work At Methodist Home Mrs. OBie Schlotterback, r 1 Milford. moved to Warren on Monday where she has accepted employment at the hospital at the Methodist Memorial Home, preparatory to entering a career in nurse's training. Mrs. Schlotterback has been employed at the Weatherhead Company in Syracuse for 12 years. RUMMAGE SALE Friday and Saturday, Oct 6 and 7, from 8 a.m. to 8 pan. at the Milford Youth Center. Sponsored by the Milford Methodist WSCS. no power and no money to keep our law-abiding, home-loving sons at home. “Yes. our sons, as other servicemen, have loved their homes, their communities and their country. They want to build up their nation instead of trying to keep an impossible lid on a seething, boiling cauldron thousands of miles from home. Like Rome we are rotting from within because the cream of our crop is being sent to foreign lands to fight impossible wars. “My humble letter will probably accomplish nothing. I know that your powers are limited, too. But may you, as one who has power beyond ours, know that we mothers find little hope in the acts of our government. Our hope is in the mercy of God, and may He be quick to guide our rulers on a merciful and justifiable path”.

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