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4A | JUNE 25, 2020 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Cottage Grove Sentinel 116 N. Sixth St. Cottage Grove, Ore. 97424 NED HICKSON , MANAGING EDITOR | Opinion 541-902-3520 | NHICKSON @ CGSENTINEL . COM The First Amendment C ongress shall make no law respect- ing an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Govern- ment for a redress of grievances. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” —Thomas Jefferson (1800) USPS#133880 Copyright 2020 © COTTAGE GROVE SENTINAL Letters to the Editor Policy The Sentinel welcomes letters to the editor as part of a community discussion of issues on the local, state and national level. Emailed letters are preferred. Handwritten or typed letters must be signed. All letters need to include full name, address and phone number; only name and city will be printed. Letters should be limited to about 300 words. Letters are subject to editing for length, grammar and clarity. Publication of any letter is not guaranteed and depends on space available and the volume of letters received. Letters that are anonymous, libelous, argumentative, sarcastic or contain accusations that are unsourced or without documentation will not be published. Letters containing poetry or from outside The Sentinel readership area will only be published at the discretion of the editor. Political/Election Letters: I’ll gladly do ‘the least’ I can to protect you wife, children or friends that could make them ill or potentially kill them, would I wear a mask to eliminate that 1 percent? Of course. In a heartbeat. last couple of weeks since entering Phase Two Reopening can see how activity in The Grove has more than doubled. Yes- terday alone, I saw license plates from California, In fact, with so many new visitors coming to the area, I’d say it’s more important than ever to do “the least” we can do to protect each other. I’ll be the first to admit Somehow, the wearing that wearing a mask is a of masks has become pain. Glasses fog up, and interpreted by some as it shifts when I talk with a political statement as, From the Editor’s Desk folks. I even snapped once again, divisiveness Ned Hickson my own ear lobe with has hijacked what was the elastic once (I don’t once common sense and recommend it, especially common courtesy for one if you are within earshot This is a special com- New Mexico, Washington another. of others). munity, and if putting up and British Columbia. If someone I cared However, a simple with the inconvenience While we are relaxing about contracted a virus thought always crosses of wearing a mask means restrictions allowing from me because I wasn’t my mind reminding me that I could potentially community businesses willing to do “the least” that the inconvenience keep from unknowingly to resume some level of I could to protect them, of wearing a mask when spreading a virus to 1 their operations — and as it would be hard to live I go into a public space percent of you, I will put a result seeing a marked with myself — no matter is a small price to pay up with the foggy glasses increase in visitors from who I would or wouldn’t for protecting my fellow and even the risk of ear- well beyond a 50-mile ra- vote for. community members and lobe snaps. dius — it doesn’t mean it’s In the end, it’s up to visitors alike. It’s the least I can do for also time to relax simple each of us to protect If someone told me this community, and I’m preventative measures to those most at-risk in this that there was a 1 percent glad to do it. slow a potential spread of community. chance that I could Anyone who has been COVID-19 in our com- It’s “the least” we can spread something to my out and about over the munities. do for each other. LETTERS An open letter to my Fire Chief Really? You say you would kill to protect property? Have you shot another human before? Folks, these are stressful days and not the time to spew violence and anger on an unforgiving and unforgetting social media plat- form. Rant to a friend in private where their love and discretion will cover you. Better still, examine your heart because your words reveal a dark and ugly treasure. How much better to be stand- ing in the confidence of your righteousness. Are you unjust or a bully? Perhaps you should change. We are all here to learn and grow. Show us a teachable heart that sees the image of God in all our fellow human beings. Lead us in love. —Sheila Hudson Cottage Grove Change is good until it goes overboard I applaud NASCAR for ban- ning the Confederate fl ag from its races, which was a move that has been a long time coming. I can also understand why peo- ple in the South are removing Confederate statues, although I never gave any thought to a stat- ute other than they are where pi- geons poop. But in some areas we are pres- ently going overboard with the names of places. U of O wants to change building names; some individuals want to change the names of military base names like Ft. Polk (my basic training), Bragg and Hood. We then have the renaming and logos on food products. I agree Aunt Jemima products and Uncle Ben’s Rice should have been re- named years ago. But it gets a bit out of hand with Land O’ Lakes removing the Indian Maiden from its logo. Who is next on this ludicrous list? Navajo Freight Lines, Quak- er Oats with a religious fi gure, black wild rice because it’s con- sidered derogatory? Change is good until it goes overboard. —Winford Jolle Cottage Grove Will they come for Jefferson, Washington? We are now in the “times that try men’s souls” of which Thomas Paine wrote. Will someone, any- one stand against the destruction of our sacred history by anar- chists, radicals and the anti-gov- ernment rabble mocking and abandoning American history by pillaging monuments of centuries of principled individuals named Columbus, Lee and other Con- federate generals in the name of misdeeds? Robert E. Lee fought for the cause of the Tenth Amendment over an all powerful federal gov- ernment, which he detested. At Appomattox, the army of the Potomac veterans saluted Lee before his meeting with Gener- al Grant in total respect for his honorable leadership during im- mensely trying times. The defacement and decapita- tion of Columbus — that great- est of Italian explorers without whom we would be Europeans — is vile, childish and devoid of all perspective. They are coming for Mr. Jeffer- son and the father of our country, which will completely debilitate western civilization — which seems to be the strategy. No more America for these midnight ma- rauders with no heart, sense, his- torical perspective and certainly lacking doctrinal decency. It is now or never; America or chaos. Who will stand? John Adams said in his mar- velous speech on Independence at Philadelphia, “Sir, we are in the midst of Revolution. There will be a great expense of blood gen- tleman. However I am not with- out apprehensions, sir ... but if I am to live, give me a country and a republic governed by laws, a free country.” That Republic is in danger of extinction unless good men with the voice of a John Adams appear. — Gerry Rutter Cottage Grove Election-related letters must address pertinent or timely issues of interest to our readers at-large. Letters must: 1) Not be a part of letter-writing campaigns on behalf of (or by) candidates; 2) Ensure any information about a candidate is accurate, fair and not from second-hand knowledge or hearsay; and 3) explain the reasons to support candidates based on personal experience and perspective rather than partisanship and campaign-style rhetoric. Candidates themselves may not use the letters to the editor column to outline their views and platforms or to ask for votes; this constitutes paid political advertising. 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