Howitzer Is Part of Our History
By Raymond Rivera, Harwinton
     The 155mm howitzer is a big part of our country's history. Like it or not (and I have read comments indicating the howitzer is a symbol of "destruction and death"), our country enjoys freedoms today because brave men and women have used and continue to use these symbols of "destruction and death" to preserve those freedoms.
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Observations — Round and About
By Edward LeHoskey, Torrington
     Airlines — Anyone familiar with aircraft knows an airplane, if used improperly, is a flying bomb. We are familiar with hijacking and have been for 40 years. Did anyone do anything about it? One measure could have been making the cockpit secure. Beefing up the door would have required more weight, resulting in the loss of one paying seat. The airlines were not interested in the safety of passengers or of their own air crews, only the bottom line.
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