Sacrifices made by soldiers should not be minimized

Sacrifices made by soldiers should not be minimized
EDITOR:
I am responding to the letter of Dec. 14, "Newscast reports the toll." In his letter regarding the deaths and injuries of young U.S. military soldiers, the writer asks, "For what?" He feels that the soldiers' deaths and injuries have no purpose. I feel otherwise.
Every soldier who has died for our country has died for an important purpose. If I were a soldier I wouldn't want anyone feeling that there was no purpose to my death. Instead, I would hope that they would regard my beliefs seeing that serving my country, even if it meant dying, was what I had wanted.
A lot of committed people have taken action and have become soldiers. It was these people's individual choice to volunteer to fight for our country and for our freedoms. These soldiers have done their job. They have protected our freedoms and our country and have also saved many lives. The civilians of Iraq are grateful to our forces for their efforts in stopping Saddam Hussein from killing innocent people in their country.
The soldiers are heroes who are willing to sacrifice their lives so that we have freedom to voice our opinions and even write letters like these. I know that I am thankful for these courageous men and women who are willing to risk their lives to preserve our freedoms. Everyone should feel the same.
ELIZABETH HUGHES
North Jackson
Darwin's theory is unproved
EDITOR:
A letter to the editor in the Dec. 20 Vindicator from an evolutionist living in Hubbard was typical of the irrational thinking of those people. Not only do they propose that the entire universe sprang spontaneously from nothing, by pure chance, but they want to continue teaching that nonsense to our children.
The Ohio State Board of Education has already declared that intelligent design is an appropriate subject to discuss in the critical analysis section of the new science teaching standards. I am working with Ohio Roundtable to produce a documentary series that will propose and answer 10 questions to the Darwinian science community regarding their unproved theory and those will become teaching tools for interested teachers. This will not amount to teaching "religion" as he proposes, but instead will teach our young folks to think; something that more evolutionists need to practice.
The Hubbard evolutionist says that agricultural research has prospered by utilizing the evolutionary theory. The last time I looked, research projects involved intelligent persons designing experiments. Thus it appears that it was Intelligent Design, not random chance, that produced those agricultural advancements. The Hubbard evolutionist asked, "Could ID ever do that?" In fact, sir, that is exactly what did that. A group of Intelligent scientists put their ingenuity to work and designed a method to improve crop production.
Now I ask you, sir, could random chance ever do that? It certainly takes much more "faith," call it religion if you will, to believe that all we see in the universe is a product of time plus matter plus chance, as opposed to being the product of intelligent design.
CHARLES H. McGOWEN, M.D.
Howland
Separate but equal
EDITOR:
In regard to the policy of the separation of church and state, there seems to be a movement to subdue the church part. If this is true then it would seem reasonable for the state part to be subdued also.
The true meaning of the separation of church and state is that the church is not to rule the state and the state is not to rule the church. However, they need to work together harmoniously for the good of society on a strong moral, ethical and spiritual (Christ like) relationship.
ALPHEUS ROHRER
North Lima