Blood shed was red
It's Sept. 11. I sat at my keyboard early this morning, wanting to write something about the destruction of the twin towers in New York 18 years ago. Many ideas crowded my mind, but I couldn't settle on just one. As I watched the national evening news, there were some images that cinched it for me.
The national news program I watched showed images of people at the site of 9/11, making comments about the loved ones they lost. Others recited the names of the nearly 3,000 souls who lost their lives that day. There were faces of all hues, making comments as they shed tears that were as fresh today as they were 18 years ago. One lady spoke in Spanish. I prayed her words would grip the hearts and minds of all Americans who saw and heard her.
Why can't we remember all the times in our history when people from every stripe imaginable have paid the price in suffering unto death to preserve our freedom? Why can't those of us who think we are superior to others realize that the highest of prices have been paid by a diversity of individuals for these amber waves of grain?
Large numbers of people visited houses of worship after 9/11. Unfortunately, the need to connect with powers greater than we are after tragedies wears off soon. I remember the hate many showed toward people who looked a certain way. The angel of death chose liberally on 9/11. Color and ethnicity made no difference. All the blood shed that day was red!
God bless America and all who reside within her.
HOSEA LONG
Little Rock
Was there a point?
Why did your sports page publish an article with photos about "big game hunting" of ever-endangered Africa's animals?
Big man with a big gun gets his photo taken crouched beside dead African mammals. Why? What's the point of this?
STEVE A. JONES
El Dorado
Won't get my money
Walmart has turned its back on the very people who made it become Walmart. I wonder what Sam and Bud Walton would say. I believe it won't be long before Bentonville will become a fading memory. It seems Walmart totally ignores facts about gun control and promotes the destruction of the Constitution. My change will now be spent elsewhere and not in the decaying morality of Walmart.
FLOYD HOPSON
Hazen
Cut prescription costs
In response to "Cut drug costs" by Herb Sanderson, it is time we in Arkansas stand up to Big Pharma.
Ask your senators to vote for the Grassley-Wyden Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act. It has already passed the House but is held up in the Senate. Call Sen. John Boozman's office, (501)372-7153, and Sen. Tom Cotton's office, (501)223-9081, and ask them to lead the way and vote for the Grassley-Wyden bill.
LARRY LARSON
Little Rock
Editorial on 09/13/2019