Con Son controversy highlights selective outrage over wartime atrocity
The piece argues that U S concern over Con Son prison mistreatment reflects political bias, noting harsher attention to right wing regimes and Cuba Viet Cong misdeeds. It urges equal concern for all atrocities regardless of the perpetrator and political aims.
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Con Son
Thieu
United States
Vietnam
Augustus F. Hawkins
California
Hue
Castro
Cuba
China
U.S
Herbicide use in North Carolina questioned over Vietnam safety
The letter argues the roadside spray used in North Carolina may be too dangerous for use at home and near pregnancies. It urges halting its use, despite assurances it avoids homes, ponds and livestock, and is restricted by wind. Calls for safer substitutes.
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North Carolina
Vietnam
Kiss and Make Up on Bald Head Island Sale Prompts State Cooperation
The Bald Head Island sale to Carolina Cape Fear Corp for private resort development prompts a call for North Carolina to drop public spats and join in cooperative planning. The piece urges preserving ecology while enabling tourism, road and ferry access, and shared stewardship between the company and state conservationists.
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Bald Head Island
Carolina Cape Fear Corp
North Carolina
Carolina Cape Fear
Cracking Interstates Stressed by Heavy Truck Traffic
The General Accounting Office reports interstate highways are cracking under heavy truck weight. $200 million spent on repairs highlights misjudgments in road design and weather, soil, and load factors. Suggestions to divert weight to non primary routes were discussed but not resolved.
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General Accounting Office
Congress
18 Year Old Replies to Ray Hussey on War and Liberals
An 18 year old defends Vietnam service and cites personal loss while criticizing pacifist views and political labels. The writer contrasts wartime sacrifice with antiwar sentiments and questions liberal labels amid biblical and prophetic references.
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Ray Hussey
Johnny Cash
Hussey
Vietnam
Derby Ram and the Great Market Day Tale
Verses recount an enormous ram seen on Derby market day. The ram is described as fat, measuring ten yards around, with wool from its tail filling fifty bags. It supposedly fed an army and provisioned a fleet, a favored English lying song attributed to George Washington.
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Derby
George Washington
Reachin Up: A Poem By Lillie Burton Kennedy
The poem speaks of seeking God between high and low paths and recalling a past in green pastures and by a stream. It notes belief that God is present in the heights and that His Son was sent into the depths, and the speaker hears a divine call.
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Green Pasture
Lillie Burton Kennedy
Hallowed Hollowness and The Loom of Shame
A fragmented poem explores dissolving kinship for worldly morals and transforming memory into art. It references a Jasper Man and symbolic colors bronze and orange, hinting at triumphs, guilt, and ritual imagery amid a Dantean frame.
There Is No Substitute A Bible Sermon by Fred R. Hall
The author extols the Bible as God's word and the source of wisdom and salvation. He highlights stories of David and Daniel, Proverbs, and prophecies, calling the Bible a life guide from earth to heaven provided by divine grace.
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David
Goliath
Daniel
Christ
Earth
Heaven
Fred R. Hall
Sound of Spring Poem by Mike Jacobs
A reflective verse on listening to nature in spring and the soul’s unspoken response. The speaker hears wind, grass, and the heartbeat of time as spring births maiden summer, touching themes of luminosity and longing.
Dark companion haunts a troubled soul with endless longing
A night of torment is described as a person battles a relentless inner presence. The speaker pleads for release from a surrounding, muttering force that accompanies every step and overpowers hope, ending with a lingering cry for help. The piece portrays deep isolation and despair.
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Randall B. Terry, JR
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Joe Brown
C. W. Patterson, JR
W. W. Idol, JR
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