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Joe Biden isn't a
victim, he's a survivor
To the editor:
This letter is in response to the letter that appeared in The Sentinel on Friday Oct. 16. In it, Diane Logan once again arrives at a conclusion that is very misleading at best and totally incorrect at its worst.
Ms. Logan refers to the "never ending political ads of late that in which Biden states his wife and daughter were killed by a truck driver." She goes on to say that those ads "hint that the truck driver was the culprit who killed Mrs. Biden and her daughter." She then points out that Mrs. Biden was at fault for the accident and states that "Joe has always portrayed himself as a victim." These words indicate a lack of empathy and understanding on Ms. Logan's part.
In these ads, Joe Biden is not hinting that the truck driver was the culprit. He is simple stating a fact without placing blame. I would like to point out to Ms. Logan that stating a fact without placing blame occurs every day. When a person is flying a private plane and dies in a plane crash, we say he or she was "killed in an airplane crash." When a pedestrian is killed in a cross walk, we say he or she was "hit and killed by a car." When a child runs onto the highway and is hit, we say the child was "killed by a passing car." In none of those incidents do we say the person was killed but it was his or her own fault.
Unlike some who were born to great wealth and privilege, Joe has struggled to overcome stuttering and has endured great loss in his life including the loss of a wife, young daughter, and son. These ads are not meant to portray Joe as a victim but rather to let people know that he can empathize with others that have also struggled through hardship and suffered great loss.
Harry M. Geedey
Lewistown
It is not veterans who are suckers and losers
To the editor:
Granduncle Joe, not long off the boat from Poland, thought he signed a contract as a bellhop at a post Philadelphia hotel. Imagine his surprise when he found himself as part of the Marine Expeditionary Forces in World War I, in France. Joe survived the Belleau Wood engagement, returned to the States, but never wore the Marine full dress blues. He died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
My dad's service with the 4th Marine Division's Central Pacific, island-hopping campaign ended at Iwo Jima. The 4th was retired to the States, sustaining 80% casualties. Pop never saw John Wayne on Iwo, the Duke was shooting blanks on a Hollywood sound stage. Heroes earn Purple Hearts, not Academy Awards.
My brother served as a Marine Corps adviser to the Vietnamese (artillery) and survived the 1968 Tet offensive. Two of his brother Marine advisers did not. My service as part of the Navy Hospital Corps included a year with Fleet Amphibious Forces, Atlantic. The Corps always took good care of their "docs."
American sons and daughters, children of the blue-collar workers, have always answered the call to national service. They are the working-class heroes whom capitalism exploits, then abandons.
The heroes of the capitalist class, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and "Cadet Bonespurs" Trump, used their family wealth and political connections to avoid national service obligations. Later, in positions of power, these pretend-patriots have no qualms about sending another generation of the working class to shed blood for Wall Street profits.
Those who served before us, and those who wear the service uniform today, have never been addressed as suckers or losers by the capitalist draft-dodger class, until "Bonespurs" Trump.
No, fellow veterans, the true suckers and losers are the brainwashed fools who proudly display Trump campaign signs on their property.
Peter Mazurkiewicz
Beaver Springs