Wars are meant to be won

Wars are meant to be won

The Memorial Day parades are over. The speeches are finished and the politicians have had their photo opportunities. We now need to ask why our sons and daughters in uniform are dying every day. They die because presidents refuse to win wars.

There is no reason for a war with the United States to last more than a week. War is not politically correct. Wars are to be won, not continued. Yes, there will be collateral damage. Yes, there will be civilian death. Death and damage are minimized by the use of massive force to come to a quick conclusion.

It appears that Americans will soon be dying in Korea because Truman decided not to win. MacArthur was fired for daring to recommend the use of massive force. Every president since has followed the same wrong path.

In 1945, my dad was on a troop ship in the Panama Canal headed for Japan when the bomb fell on Hiroshima. The war ended and no Americans died invading Japan. Tens of thousands of Japanese died that day in Japan, but not one American. It was not a day to be ashamed of. It was a good day.

Don Johnson, Liberty Township

Keep Mill Creek flowing

After reading the self serving, public relations article on the “accomplishments” of Mill Creek MetroParks and its board, a response is in order.

It is wonderful that they have “blessed” the county and its tax-paying residents with their version of the park system. Some $6.8 million of our tax dollars are spent each year, including a $200,000 subsidy for a golf course that can’t break even.

My vision and that of the Mill Creek Woods Home Owners Association (on record with the park board and county commissioners) is for the park board to spend some of those millions of tax dollars on the long-neglected obligation to keep the Mill Creek waterway properly cleared and to maintain its flow volume to the lake at the end of this waterway.

Financial supporters of the park are periodically being flooded because the MCMP has allowed the development of the 224 swamplands, which prevents storm water from properly and rapidly moving north to its natural end point in the lake. This is in spite of Canfield Township’s funding projects to do their share and act responsibly.

Daniel Victor Bienko, Canfield