I have received several responses on past articles. My friend
Weldon Woodward from Levasy said my column on the ex-Mayor who drove from Oak
Grove to Grain Valley going the wrong way on I-70 reminded him of a story about
the woman who called her husband and said “Honey, be careful. It just came on
the news some lunatic is driving the wrong way down the freeway.”
The husband replied, “It’s worse than that. There are
hundreds of them!”
Joan
Bailey, a member of my church, said ironically a week before my article on gun
control one of their friends said he thought the reason he was so attracted and
enthused about firing the fully automatic AR-15 was he never served in the
Army. Her husband Roger was in the Army four years and has never
had the desire to own or fire a weapon since.
Many of
the responses were about my daughter-in-law buying a new Subaru.
Most of them were similar to the foreign car dealer who didn’t say where
he was from but reads my column in the Moberly Monitor-Index. He
informed me the automobile market was world-wide and most foreign cars have
factories in the U.S., just as the American automobile companies
have factories in both Europe
and Asia. When I
told him the Japanese were responsible for over a hundred thousand United States casualties in World Ward II, he replied, “In the business world,
the Second World War is ancient history, with few Japanese or U.S.
military personnel who participated alive today.” He went on to
say he was not a Subaru dealer, but with Missouri winters, my
daughter-in-law had made a good choice with the all wheel drive Subaru and its
excellent resale value. He also corrected my article by telling me
the Subaru she bought was not manufactured in Japan, but was built
in Lafayette,
Indiana by American
workers.
Am I the
only one left who remembers Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, and would never buy a Japanese car?
Jack can be reached at
PO Box 40,
Oak Grove, MO 64075, or jackremembers@aol.com. Visit
www.jackremembers.com.
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