Letter to the Editor

Letters to the editor

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

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