Radio City’s ‘sick’ military tune

Manhattan: This is a note I sent in response to the folks from Radio City Music Hall asking about our experience: “The show is nice. Our experience was not. “I had purchased tickets, six in total, for the Dec. 27, 11 a.m. Christmas Spectacular show a couple of weeks in advance. The cost of the tickets, with all your fees, was over $1,400. The tickets were for my daughters and their children. Their dad is currently deployed in the Middle East. The show, and trip to NYC, was to be a nice diversion during holiday school break.

“Unfortunately, one of my grandkids got very sick the day before and all were exposed to a very bad virus and we could not go. My daughter called your ticket office to see if we could get a refund, fully explaining the circumstances, inclusive of her husband serving overseas in our military. The request was ‘reviewed’ by whomever does that and denied about 30 minutes before showtime.

“One, Radio City should be ashamed for denying the request of a family whose father is away during the holidays and serving our country; this is a very difficult time for any military family. To deny the request 30 minutes before showtime is a horrible business practice. Thirdly, to not even offer another option, another date or even tickets for next year is foolish.” Tom Reilly Norfolk, Va.: In the press release that Johns Hopkins Medicine issued on its research, one of the authors of the study states, “The reality is that people with PTSD are a lot more complex than mice in a lab . . .” (“Alcohol could hurt your chances of overcoming PTSD: study,” Jan. 10). We agree. Mice are not small versions of humans. And subjecting them to the cruelty of foot electroshocks can’t hope to mimic the conditions that bring about PTSD in people. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of PTSD sufferers in the U.S. Instead of subjecting mice to these experiments, the federal tax dollars that funded this work would have been better spent on the care and treatment of those patients. Manhattan: Mice in labs are held captive, unable to exert control over their own circumstances and subjected to unpredictable and undeserved torture sessions, as they were in this Johns Hopkins experiment. Sounds like the life of a POW. Instead of funding mouse prisons, the federal tax dollars that paid for this work would have been better spent on the care and treatment of the many people who suffer from PTSD. Ozone Park: In “A oui bit rude” (Jan. 1), the litany of rude and dishonest waiters, restaurants and attitude-ridden Parisians was all too familiar to me, another gauche American daring to invade the City of Light. I have traveled throughout Europe, both east and west, and the only place where my bill was padded, where “street artists” cursed me out, and “snottiness du jour” was daily on display, was Paris. France is where my dad earned his Purple Heart during the invasion of Normandy in a small but very bloody and deadly place called St. Lo. My dad was also decorated by the French government in 2001. Sad to say, none of the Parisians I interacted with these many years later were worth one drop of his or any other American’s blood. Paris is a beautiful city filled with ugly people. Jackson, Miss.: My Lord, “A oui bit rude” is written in the style of a junior high student. It’s oddly reminiscent of the ramblings of the archetypal Ugly American from the 1960s: The Mona Lisa is highly overrated (professional art critics be damned), the Louvre is boring (art be damned), and an Italian restaurant is so good, “you’ll forget you’re in Paris”? So the writer ends up lauding a glorified IHOP owned and run by an American. This is obviously so off-note there is no need to further comment, but my question is why would News editors green-light this? Atlantic City: The Brink’s heist was “daring,” not horrific, horrendous, despicable, cowardly (“Sergeant’s union boss livid after Gov. Cuomo commutes sentence of Judith Clark,” Dec. 31)? Why, because it was done by lefties and blacks and not right-wing whites? Brooklyn: I wonder if Voicer John Garvey would feel the same about Judy Clark’s parole if she murdered his father, mother, brother or sister? I think not! Hampton Bays, L.I.: I really don’t know what the governor was thinking about here, how can he disrespect the families of the two police officers and that of the Brink’s guard this way? Not to mention the disrespect of all the police officers that risk their lives daily for the good and decent people of this great state? As a retired NYPD sergeant, and one who was on the front line fighting against everything Clark stands for, I resent Cuomo cutting even one day off her sentence. She had her day in court, was found guilty of her crimes and a judge pronounced the sentence, period. The judge didn’t say 75 years or until a liberal governor decides differently. Gov. Cuomo, you have lost my respect, but more importantly, you have lost my vote. Brooklyn: Dear Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea: In case you would like to test-fire a long-range missile at the U.S.A., please consider taking aim at the Kodak theater on Oscar night. Removing these raging narcissistic “artists” would benefit the world greatly. Bronx: Grow up, Donald Trump. How did you ever make it out of kindergarten? Staten Island: This latest big push to bring down Donald Trump with tremendous lies is so terribly disgusting. The reason he is our President-elect is because we are sick to death of the left’s promotion of violence, their constant lies, widespread corruption and unwillingness to cooperate. As a lifelong registered Democrat, I am now committed to never again voting another Democrat into office. Bronx: Donald Trump is not the reason that the very qualified Hillary Clinton is not President of the United States. That dubious distinction belongs to Barack Obama who, in 2008, entered the Democratic nomination quest, and siphoned off those votes that otherwise would have been Hillary’s. That done, however, I sincerely hope that Hillary challenges Bill de Blasio and becomes the next mayor of our New York City. Manchester, N.J.: To those people debating the popular vote as opposed to the Electoral College process, note that according to Wikipedia, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2008 Democratic primary but still lost the nomination to Obama. Cutchogue, L.I.: To Voicer Carol Reisman: I am one of those poor white people that you wrote so hatefully to Voicers about. I did not vote for Donald Trump; I voted against Hil, Bill, Obama. If you are worried about Trump taking your free stuff away, maybe Gregg Vigliotti for New York Daily News you should be more like me. I am poor and rich at the same time. I have a wonderful and beautiful wife of 34 years and a wonderful son of 13 years. Unlike you, I don’t worry about anybody taking my free stuff away because unlike you and people like you, I don’t think the world owes me a living. I earn my keep. Try it sometime. You just might feel better about yourself. South Ozone Park: To Voicer Mary Ann Coyne: FYI, Obamacare is a disaster and will die by its own merits or lack of merit. As a person who actually pays for his health insurance with no assistance from the government, I can tell you my premiums have doubled, my deductibles have skyrocketed, I was not able to keep my doctor and I was dropped three times. Doesn’t sound like what Obama promised, does it? If that’s considered a success to you, I have a bridge you might be interested in. If the economy is so much better now, why are so many more people receiving assistance from the government? But then again isn’t that what the Democrats want — an electorate that is dependent on the government and casts its vote to remain on the government dole? Brooklyn: I was in the supermarket dairy section, picked up a milk container and saw missing person Odell Beckham on a milk container. What a joke!