Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: Letter to Editor

[patty guerrero (pattypax]

Maybe some of you would like to see my letter which was in Friday’s paper.    
Patty


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> From: patty guerrero <pattypax [at] icloud.com>
> Subject: Letter to Editor
> Date: July 13, 2019 at 12:58:47 PM CDT
> To: letters <letters [at] pioneerpress.com>
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> July 13, 2019
> 
> Dear Editor,   
> 
> I know in general that Representative Betty McCollum is against wars.  But , 
> did it ever occur to her that by speaking at the ceremony condoning a 
> battleship named after our two great cities,  Minneapolis-St Paul, that she 
> was actually condoning wars.   The article in the paper gave statistics of 
> this war ship, but said not a thing about how many people it could kill, nor 
> did it say how much it cost and how our weapons manufacturers got richer  by 
> the billions of dollars.
> In 1984, the first Minneapolis-St Paul combat ship was commissioned and there 
> were people who  had a press conference at St Paul City Hall in front of the 
> Indian God of Peace (which it was called then)) decrying the name of a 
> warship after our cities.  
> I hope Rep. McCollum and any others who are asked to speak approving a war 
> machine will remember these words of President Eisenhower:
> 
> “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies 
> in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who 
> are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money 
> alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its 
> scientists, and the hopes of its children.”
> 
> Thank you,  
> 
> Patty Guerrero
> 393 Fulton 
> St Paul, MN  55102
> 651-227-3228