Thank you for these powerful Vietnam stories
Kudos to Post-Gazette staff writer Diana Nelson Jones and photographer Nate Guidry for their superb package of stories about U.S. military veterans returning to Vietnam 50 years after the Tet offensive (Feb. 25, “Return to Vietnam”).
Marine veteran George Haught’s story always has been the most compelling Vietnam recollection I’ve heard in person, though there have been many others.
The first time I heard Mr. Haught speak was at one of Todd DePastino’s Veterans Breakfast Club events a couple of years ago at Georgetown Centre in Pleasant Hills. George talked about his losses in Hue City with a low-keyed humility that tore me up.
I had to meet him the moment the breakfast ended. I have been privileged to call him my friend ever since.
For fully half a century, America has been blessed by his survival. Ms. Nelson Jones’ descriptions of Mr. Haught and her quotations, as well as Mr. Guidry’s photographs, make me even prouder to call him a fellow American.
Thank you for all of the stories that you compiled and related so beautifully. May both be showered with laurels throughout the next year for their compassionate, skillful journalism. ED BLANK Mt. Lebanon Castle Senior High School Class of 1965 who served in our military. HARRY A. FLANNERY New Castle
I know there are a lot of pressingissues in the world today, but I have to comment on what you call a “reboot” of your comics pages (Feb. 25, “Five New Comics Join the Post-Gazette’s Funnies”). I will miss “Mary Worth” and “Rex Morgan, M.D.”, but I can live without them. Starting the day without “Mother Goose & Grimm” and “Curtis” will be more difficult.
The worst, though, is losing Cryptoquip. I know we still have Celebrity Cipher, but it’s not the same. And I’ve already worn out one eraser on KenKen. As a “word person,” I never even got the hang of Sudoku! Please consider bringing back Cryptoquip for us “nonnumbers” people. We print newspaper readers — and there are a few of us left — can’t handle these reboots! MARCIA REICHL CONLEY Oakland A short, short time ago I can still remember how The comics use to make me smile.
And I knew that with morning’s glow
My comic friends would say hello
And maybe I’d be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver
When my paper was delivered. I know that I sat and cried The day the comics died.
We’ve known each other for a while.
You’ve shared my breakfast, made me smile.
I can’t believe you’ve gone away.
Dagwood, Mary, Rex and June, Beetle, Dennis, gone so soon And Family Circus. What more can I say? Zits and Curtis, Hagar too Mother Goose and Baby Blue Mutts will never brighten up my day. So bye, bye to American Pie. Read the newer comics but the humor was dry. Guess I’ll pour myself a glass of whiskey or rye The day the comics died. SYLVIA MARKO Shaler