Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Living in the Present - Remembering the KIA
Dear Editor One day before Veterans Day my thoughts flow back to my time on Active Air Force Service. I served in Strategic Air Command as a Squadron CoPilot on KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft...
Letter to the Editor: Fear, the Democrat's tool of choice
It’s a powerful emotion that can allow a person to recall a single instant in time . . . It can
turn them into a quivering mass of flesh . . . It can make them cower . . . It can “change
their m...
Reading my mind: Goodbyes
The older a person gets, the more you say goodbye. I know that's probably obvious. But sometimes you don't realize that you're officially getting old until you start counting up how many there h... What happens in Vinton...stays in Vinton
Supposedly wind took out some of our Scarecrows, at least that's what one of them told me. But another of them said that the food was great, but the party was even better. Saturday these Scarecro... Letter to the Editor: Response
Response to Darrin Lindsey -Sure . . . let's get our "facts" in order. First, I never said that a militia was defined in the Constitution. Its meaning was simply understood. Britain had a tradition of...
Letter to the Editor:2nd Amendment Sanctuary Counties, Can there be such a thing
Yesterday, October 12th, 2021 Benton County became the 23rd of 99 Iowa counties to become a "2nd Amendment Sanctuary County". Just what does that mean exactly? The paragraph in the resolution that mos...
Reading my mind: Duck!
There's one thing I love, and it's babysitting a special little two year old. Well, most of the time. Actually, 99.9% of the time. It's that remaining teeny tiny of a percentage that brings me out of ...
Reading my Thoughts: Cars
A couple of weeks ago, I went downtown to the store. I came out and my car was dead. "Oh great, I left the lights on," I thought and immediately started down the list of my kids trying to figure out w...
Letter to the Editor: Happy to be in Vinton
Dear Editor,I believe I'm among the luckiest, no, most fortunate, a person you'll know. My wife is safely and thoughtfully cared for in the Virginia Gay Rehab facility managed expertly by Jessica Henk...
Reading my mind: 9/11
I really don't think that there is anything that I can say now, which hasn't been expressed about the events that took place on September 11, 2001. If you were alive then you remember exactly where yo...