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Editor, Index-Tribune:
While North Korea threatens the United States with preemptive nuclear attack, Dennis Rodman, former NBA basketball attraction, on visiting that country, hugs Kim Jong Un, North Korean dictator, as his new friend.
With his flamboyant display of tattoos and abundant facial jewelry, accented by the two mucous collectors hanging from his nostrils, Rodman seems to have found once again his place on the international stage. His place this time, unfortunately, seems more like a traitor to his country.
His less-than-average intelligence appears to have left him with little or no knowledge that the Korean creep he is befriending is threatening to blow up Washington, D.C., and that his new friend’s counterparts have the blood of almost 40,000 American servicemen on their hands who died in the Korean War ridding South Korea of these communist invaders.
Additionally, Rodman, aka The Worm (as he was frequently referred to in his NBA days), openly befriends the regime that has starved by famine a large percentage of its people and has held them to some of the most egregious forms of human indignity on record.
Hopefully, this self-appointed, misdirected voice of unreason, will not be invited to the White House or to the State Department for any diplomatic debriefing.
Bob Collin
Veteran WWII/Korea
Sonoma
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It's understandable that old wounds are often the deepest, and many veterans of our countless wars carry with them the scars acquired in youth. It is indeed difficult for one who has suffered much at the hands of an enemy to watch, in their sunset years, a younger generation befriend a people who at one time tried to kill them. But it happens and in the end, it is a good thing. Not that Rodman's trip to North Korea is much more than silly (though who knows who sent him or why?).
But if the goal is world peace then eventually we "shake hands and call it all a big misunderstanding; forgive and try to forget." We certainly did it with our enemies in WWII and Vietnam -- they are now our major allies and (drum roll here) "trading partners." E.G., half the cars on American roads are Japanese and German, and every corporation is opening shop in Vietnam.
That's the way it goes with "the next generation" - they build there own lives. Otherwise, there is endless war and constant hatred, where the national treasure of our youth are fed into an endless killing machine. As in the middle east, where grandsons are killing each other for grievances of their grandfathers and great grandfathers, for causes they aren't really sure what they are all about, except they are told that "they" are bad and must be killed . It's no way to live.
Rodman? He was a fool then & he hasn't changed. Kim Il Un? imagine what HE had to grow up with & what he's going through at 29, when other kids his age are dancing & going to college & rasing families, he is stuck living the hateful, insane past of his communist great grandfathers -- the guys who tried to kill young Bobbie Collin. Almost have to feel sorry for him. Almost.