Time to put flowers back on fence at MCAS

About a month ago The Yuma Sun ran a front page article about the 13 wreaths that were placed on the Marine Corp Air Station fence at the corner of 32nd Street and Avenue

3E, in remembrance of the 13 service members who died all at once in Afghanistan. A couple of days later we were sitting in our car at that intersection and watched as an elderly couple walked across the street and placed some flowers on the fence. That got us to thinking…maybe we should do the same thing, so we did. Then we wrote a Letter to the Editor thanking the 13, those that placed the wreaths on the fence, and the elderly folks; and went on about our way doing the daily stuff.

We hadn’t been back by that intersection until a couple of days ago and noticed that no more flowers had been placed on the fence. That got us to thinking…wonder why? Do people not read the newspaper much anymore, or has it just been too hot?

We’re thinking it’s the latter and are hoping that being that it’s finally cooled off, those that wanted to say “Thanks” can now do so without getting too hot. Maybe teachers and school principals (approximately grade levels 6th thru 12th) can tell their students about the 13 and place some more flowers on the fence.

(The 99 cent stores have a bunch of them, that’s where we got ours. Something tells us that parents and businesses would be more than happy to chip in a buck or two to buy the flowers and YPD would welcome the opportunity to direct traffic to help make it happen.)

Hopefully the wreaths will stay up a bit longer, so that the people of Yuma can once again show their true colors. JOHN AND JAN ACHEN

Yuma