Whitwell school display inspiring and other letters to the editors

Whitwell school display inspiring

We recently attended the Christmas for Kids/God's Christmas Event sponsored by the Marion County Sheriff's Department and organized by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gamble at Whitwell Middle School. We were surprised at the positive, powerful, motivational, inspirational and educational quotes and informational writings on each of the school's walls for the long-term benefit of the children who attend the school, including the Holocaust train car and paper clips story. We also were impressed to see the efforts of the public school system to educate our children on the Constitutional and religious history of the United States. So we ask why the Hamilton County Department of Education does not have similar displays in schools. Things of this nature are more advantageous to our children than some we have seen our tax dollars spent on.

ROBERT KLINK


'50 Shades' column right on culture

It is not often that I agree with David Cook, but his column "Fifty Shades of Orange" was right on target, especially "Gentleness and morality no longer have footholds in our culture," and about modern football, "It isn't dignified, it isn't honorable, but it's winning."

GLENN SWYGART, Sewanee, Tenn.


VA clinic staff, services praised

I have been associated with the Chattanooga VA outpatient clinic for over 15 years and have never had a complaint. The lab technician is always pleasant and smiling in drawing blood. In reviewing my test results, drugs are ordered as needed by Dr. Anita Scott, one of the finest and most competent physicians I have ever known. Kudos to their entire operation, including the audio clinic personnel.

RAY WALKER, Signal Mountain


Wrong to compare lynching, Ferguson

As soon as I saw the "Reparations for Ed Johnson" headline on David Cook's Tuesday column, I thought, "No, he didn't." He did. Leave it to him to contrive the easiest, basest, shallowest way to titillate the illiterate masses to earn a paycheck. It must have taken about 10 minutes for him to copy and paste the account of Ed Johnson's 1906 lynching and five minutes to tack on a dramatic and absurd comparison to Ferguson, Mo. I wonder what he did the rest of the day?

Mark H. Holden

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