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24 Wednesday, November 15, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon LETTERS Continued from page 16 the Veterans on November 9, with a breakfast and assembly. Many of the students at the breakfast circulated among the veterans and expressed their gratitude for their service. During the assembly presenta- tion a slide was shown welcoming home Vietnam veterans. This simple expression was very much appre- ciated by many of us who did not receive such a welcome after serving in that conflict. We veterans cannot express our appreciation enough to the facil- ity, staff, and especially the students of Sisters High School for hosting this event. The community of Sisters should indeed be proud of their High School and students. Ronnie Frigulti s s s To the Editor: I am shocked: No restaurants or businesses had any advertisements for discounts or free meals, or buy one get one, for our beloved veterans! I scanned The Nugget a couple of times thinking surely I missed something; even made a few calls asking. All the hype to shop and stay local, which we do more often than not, even though it is more expen- sive; recently filled our rigs with gas at .024 per gal- lon more than Bend. We had a fun time in Bend and maybe more from now on. Jeri Johnson s s s To the Editor: Thank you, Kiki Dolson, for all things The Nugget. Enjoy the wonder of your new adventure; you deserve it! Judy Bull s s s PHOTO BY GARY MILLER To the Editor: Having just read Douglas Beall’s calendar article in The Nugget (2018 Oregon Bird Calendars avail- able, October 25, page 14), I’m disappointed that there was no obvious disclosure that Turtle Ridge Wildlife Center is not local. This Salem facility provides no services to our local Sisters or Central Oregon wildlife. It is certainly Mr. Beall’s discretion to promote the wildlife facility of his choice. My concern is that potential calendar purchasers understand that Turtle Ridge is located in the Willamette Valley and that no proceeds will benefit local hard-working rehab facilities or assist in the rescue of local birds or wildlife. Mary Ann Kruse s s s To the Editor: We live east of Sisters, close to government- managed lands. We had a friend — a long-time resident of Bend — come out for dinner. To walk around on the magic lands that we so cherish. And then a mid-fall feast. At the end of the walk, off in the distance, were rapid bursts of gunfire. I would have presumed them to be automatic weapons. When will the veterans, hunters, and other legiti- mate gun owners help us who are so deeply sad- dened by these human losses at unnecessary weap- ons to say “Enough!”? Scott Stoery s s s To the Editor: Congratulations are in order for the National Rifle Association, whose resistance to a rational gun control policy is fast-tacking our country to catch up with Somalia in terms of lawlessness, death and disorder. Some headlines about the Sutherland Springs Church massacre asked the question as to how the gunman got his weapons since he had a domestic violence record and had been hospitalized for men- tal illness. The real question is “why does anyone outside of the military or law enforcement have access to these types of assault weapons?” Owning assault weapons is not a “right.” Yes, according to the Second Amendment citizens have the right to “bear arms,” but that right is limited. For example, citizens may not own automatic weap- ons, rocket-propelled grenades, flamethrowers, etc. As the Second Amendment reads “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” My question to the gun nuts out there, what “well-regulated Militias” (except the NRA) do these various killers belong to? In regard to the NRA slogan that we need more “good guys with guns” to control “bad guys with guns,” I ask where were those “good guys” in Las Vegas? Surely there were numbers of individuals in the audience of a country and western concert who were carrying weapons. Yet as far as I know, no one other than the police returned fire. Both the killers in Las Vegas and the Sutherland Springs Church killed themselves as did multiple killers before them. The only way we will be able to establish an effective gun-control policy is to vote out of office any politician who accepts money from the NRA, as for example, Greg Walden. Rep. Walden is a co- sponsor of SHARE, an NRA bill to make purchas- ing silencers easy. Wouldn’t that be great for any of these people planning massacres? Imagine how much more efficient the gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary could have been with a silencer! Walden is the only Oregon co-sponsor of this legislation. If you communicate with him, ask him to give back the $38,250 he has received from the NRA — or better yet ask him to donate that money to funds for victims and their families. Ken Serkownek s s s To the Editor: Terrific brief summary article on the Dawn of the Red Century (“Meet the new boss: Dawn of the Red Century, The Nugget, November 1, page 19). I saw firsthand how Communism was not a good idea when I spent almost three years in the Army in Berlin (1962-64) watching the so-called German Democratic Republic (that is communist East Germany — classic euphemism in that country name) finalize the Berlin Wall. Another barbaric workers’ paradise that did not quite work as planned as some 4 million refugees fled the workers’ paradise hell-hole before the Wall locked the rest of them in so they would not flee their homeland. West Berlin was thriving while Communist East Berlin was an economic disaster with the state police (Stasi) spying on everyone. Korea is another reminder of the different gov- ernment systems. Sadly, I think the wisdom of your brief recap of history is lost on most of the current generation and is too often not taught in our schools — or worse yet a sugarcoating of evil communist dictatorships as “workers’ paradise.” Keep up the great history articles. Very good. 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