Letters to the editor
Clarifying history
Dear editor:
With all respect to Ben Holman I must point out a small error in his Nov. 12 piece on Nov. 11.
It was not a "treaty" that went into effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, but merely an "armistice," that is a ceasefire, maintaining the status quo.
The "treaty," the treaty of Versailles, came much later, on June 28, 1919. It planted the seeds of World War II by imposing a "Carthaginian peace" on Germany, in flagrant violation of the spirit of the Armistice, and of President Wilson's Fourteen Points.
Patrick Brophy
Nevada
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
Dear editor:
We are all entitled in this land
After being accused of a crime
In our constitution it demands
Each a fast and mannerly time
Our fair honest trial guarantee
Plead our innocence in a court
Given a fair chance to go free
After the evidence a jury sorts
Since the woman disappeared
I have followed from the start
When the bodies had appeared
Her body had been cut in parts
We heard of her husband's alibi
He went fishing Christmas Eve
People assumed it must be a lie
After hearing she was deceived
We learned of a man's infidelity
While she carried his only child
Though the jury sat very quietly
The faulty evidence is compiled
His story constantly on the news
His face splashed on our screens
The case is tried by media crews
Most prejudiced trial I ever seen
During these jurors deliberations
With there verdict two disagreed
A judge made this determination
The two jurors could not proceed
A case where many are to blame
After an innocent man would die
Would the people feel the shame
Will even a tear for him they cry
After just six hours in a jury room
This mans fate was in their hands
Soon after the court had resumed
I saw his blood on so many hands
Thelma Shutters
Schell City