Veteran series has error in war date
I am enjoying your 21-Veterans Salute series. However, the introduction on Sunday began with this glaring inaccuracy: “At the outbreak of the Mexican-American War at the end of the 19th Century … .”
The war referred to there would be the Spanish-American War in 1898, whereby we obtained Puerto Rico and several other islands from Spain.
The Mexican-American War was fought back in 1846-1848 before our Civil War.
Ronald Cumbie
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Ex-resident likes our changed city
Chattanooga has changed a lot since I graduated from City High School in 1966 and left for college. My brothers and I were in town this past weekend for a family reunion and joined friends Saturday at the Tivoli Theatre for the Emmylou Harris and the Red Dirt Ramblers concert.
The Chattanooga of 50 years ago was segregated. So Emmylou Harris’ introduction of her tribute to Emmett Till was pertinent for this Deep South community. Emmett Till was only 14 when he was killed for speaking to a Mississippi white woman in 1955.
The audience clapped, but when a middle-aged man stood up in the front and said, “Thank you, sister,” many responded more warmly. I thank him for speaking for many of us raised in the Chattanooga of the ’50s and ’60s who realized segregation was vile. And, I thank Emmylou Harris for her song.
LuMarie Polivka-West, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Long-brewing culture war finally boils over
I’ve read a journalist describe what is currently taking place in the United States as being a “cultural war,” which makes considerable sense to me.
This has been going on for many years, building long before it became readily apparent.
My perspective includes the election of President Donald Trump, who has not only brought this upheaval to a kind of critical peak but also seems determined to be the presidential warrior-in-chief for one particular side – the side that seems to be most unhappy and uncomfortable with the political, cultural, and overall general direction the USA was heading before Mr. Trump’s election.
What bothers me most about this upheaval is not so much that it is happening but that too often the people who want to be warriors are sufficiently loud, vehement and uncivil when responding to the opposite side.
I wonder who benefits from this, when there seem to be so few listeners, let alone people who are receptive to considering anything other than their own perspective.
Becky Young, Signal Mountain
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Bible study beats NFL gridiron antics
Every cloud has a silver lining.
My silver lining is having ample time to read the Bible and read often delayed literature by deciding not to watch overindulged, multi-millionaire athletes running up and down a football field.
Thanks, guys.
Dale E. Yoder