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Wednesday, November 11, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
Continued from page 4
population or less. Americans owe our very
freedoms and the rich life we enjoy to the
few who in effect sign away their freedoms
to ensure ours. When we honor our veterans
on November 11, are we seeing actual respect
for the real guardians of our Constitution,
Bill of Rights and our very freedom?
It9s the soldier that gives us freedom of
the press not the reporter; yet we are seeing
the most corrupt and egregious attack on vet-
eran9s honor by fake news spewing hate, lies,
disinformation, and propaganda 24/7. Our
nation9s founders intended for the press to
monitor our leaders not select them. Where
in the Constitution does it mention the AP
having authority to designate official results
of an election?
We are seeing an outright attack on the
honor of World War II veterans by the far left
pushing for the very Marxist/Socialist tyr-
anny hundreds of thousands of our veterans
died for to defeat.
In our universities and schools across the
nation the memories of our veterans9 sacri-
fices are being trashed by the progressive
hate machine teaching our children America
is evil and founded on racism. They want
to rewrite history that in fact shows we are
the most generous and moral country on the
earth.
Over the past four-plus years we have
seen a vicious and corrupt attack on the vot-
ing system that veterans have gone to war to
protect, not the politicians!! Think it would
stop with the 2020 election? Does the vote
we cast control the outcome, or can mali-
cious software and corrupt partisans manu-
ally counting votes decide everything? To
honor our veterans all must demand honest,
open, and bipartisan agreement from legally
submitted votes.
When it comes to simple respect and
honor of veterans I, as a veteran, find it
extremely offensive when witnessing dis-
respect for our flag and National Anthem
as self-righteous individuals refuse to stand
during a ceremony.
Veterans sometimes say, <There are no
atheist in fox holes.= I can9t help but feel
that America is in a huge <fox hole= facing
death and desperately needs a revival as One
Nation Under God.
Jeff Mackey
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To the Editor:
I was so happy to see so many of the busi-
nesses in Sisters come together to hand out
candy to the kids on Halloween. It was disap-
pointing to see that The Nugget Newspaper
did not mention it in the November 4 issue.
Yes, the traditional parade was canceled due
to COVID-19, but the businesses in town
decided that the trick-or-treating tradition
needed to go on for the kids.
My family was one of many that volun-
teered at a local business to help hand out
candy. Not only did the kids have an incred-
ible time, but the parents could not thank us
enough. It was such a success, that we had to
go to the store two additional times to pur-
chase candy, I truly believe it was the biggest
show of kids in years.
It9s a shame that The Nugget did not rec-
ognize that our community and incredible
local businesses came together to put on an
outstanding event for our kids.
Jennifer Burroughs
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To the Editor:
We will soon have a Democrat as
President and with his election, the calls
for civility, cooperation and concessions.
Laudable goals but none of which will be
reciprocated by the Trump opposition.
We started this nightmare when millions
of voters supported a patently unfit person to
be president. This was in spite of (or maybe
because of) his boasting of serial sexual
assaults of women, racist comments about
immigrants, swaggering braggadocio and a
torrent of lies.
We now have had four years of the same,
spiced with rampant overt corruption, the
encouragement of violence against political
opponents, targeted kidnapping of children,
including infants, torn from their parents
and put in cages, and lying about a deadly
virus coupled with gross mismanagement of
the response to this pandemic. Trump lied,
Americans died. And don9t try to tell me he
didn9t. He admitted this in taped recordings
of his conversations with Bob Woodward.
None of this seems to have deterred the
approximately 70 million who voted for this
dangerous charlatan.
In a letter published on September 9,
Bill Kemp wrote, asking Trump support-
ers <What would it take for [you] to aban-
don [your] support of him?= I could have
warned him that to the extent anyone actu-
ally answered his question, the answer would
be <Nothing.= (Although some wrote to criti-
cize his letter, none addressed his question).
Of course, Trump supporters have already
claimed that Biden9s election was <illegiti-
mate= because they assert without evidence
that voter fraud was so massive that it invali-
dated Biden9s vote margin of several mil-
lion (4 million as of when I write this). As
political scientist Henry Farrell recently
wrote <Democracy works only when losers
recognize that they have lost.= Trump sup-
porters won9t. Until they give up their con-
spiracy theories and express confidence in
facts and science, we will continue to have
this conflict.
Michael Wells
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To the Editor:
I just want to commend the many volun-
teers who donated their time and materials to
construct the new Peterson Ridge Trailhead
sign. Our trails are a gem for our community
and the organizations like STA and SAW and
the USFS, along with the City, continue to
amaze me in regard to their selfless efforts to
maintain our trail system.
Chuck Ryan
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