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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 2011
Page
4
Kathleen Parker reflects on a profanity filled hospital elevator incident at Presbyterian Hospital where a woman berated a male companion. She argues public profanity harms civility, urges gentler behavior, and links words to broader cultural pathologies while noting constitutional protections and the need for context.
Richardson, a semi retired Dahlgren resident, won the July Golden Pen Award for a well researched letter comparing 82 years from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and from the Civil War to World War II. He lives with his wife Janice in Hamilton County and teaches at local schools while pursuing Civil War Gothic history books.
Curtis Richardson led with 81 votes for a letter on enduring freedom. Jim LeFargell and Dennis McPheron followed with 58 and 42 votes. Richardson, a Maytag veteran and longtime Herrin designer, has four grown children and a history of local work and farming roots.
A reader reflects on the brief arc of U S history from Yorktown to Hiroshima and the Civil War veterans who witnessed vast changes. The piece notes Enola Gay power, Normandy beaches and Iwo Jima, and asks if future survivors will see freedom endure, asserting its high cost.
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A compact roster lists U S Senator Mark Kirk and Senator Durbin with phone lines and website links, plus U S Representatives Jerry Costello and John Shimkus, and State Senators Gary Forby and David Luechtefeld with respective district contacts and email or web addresses.
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