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David Cook: Testing, again, for war

photo David Cook

There is no barbed wire around this column. It’s not private property, so rigid that your opinions – especially when they differ from mine – can’t make their way in.

After one particular column last week, I heard from enough of you to know it was time to lower the drawbridge to this column a little.

“It’s not always black and white,” one reader said. Wisely.

So let’s put some gray into last Wednesday’s column that condemned a state bill that would require every Tennessee public school student to take a military recruiting test their sophomore year.

“How dare you,” one reader emailed.