Day to Remember
Sir:
Congratulations on your article, "DDay in Europe" [June 8]. It brought back many memories for me. I was a member of the 502nd Parachute Regiment of the loist Airborne Division, which dropped in the area of St. Martin-de-Varreville on Dday.
I was surprised and quite thrilled when I looked at the picture of General Eisenhower visiting my old regiment prior to our jump into Normandy. I was standing just behind the naval officer when the picture was taken, and I had not yet blackened my face for the jump [see cut].
SHERMAN J. OYLER JR. Topeka, Kans.
Sir:
The map accompanying your story on D-day in Europe is a wonderful piece of military reference material; I've filed mine away where I can always get at it. However, it seems to be drawn from the point of view of the German commander because, as any armchair strategist knows, the enemy is shown in red and friendly forces in blue. JOSEPH M. MASSARO Lieutenant, U.S.A. Fort Knox, Ky.
¶Says Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr.: "Blue boats just wouldn't work on blue water."—ED.
Of Mice, Monkeys & Space
Sir:
I resent your tendency to gouge and sideswipe the growing number of those who feel pity for brute creation. In the name of religion, of commerce, of sport, of science, man has from the beginning tormented and slaughtered these less fortunate ones. Now little Able and Baker carry on the story of man's prowess with the helpless. Four mice have known anguish in a nose cone that became a flaming oven. These are the forerunners of a host of speechless creatures that will be shot into air as coldly and indifferently as spitballs.
RUTH HORNBROOK Parkersburg, W. Va.
Sir:
I wish you Americans would cease to be disgustingly sentimental about the few animals that survive the tortures and deadly fear of being imprisoned and sent up in rockets. It makes me and many others sick.
A. M. HEEMSKERK Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Sir:
Whatever the faults of world leadership may have been, we now have "scientific fanatics" at the helm, with the fiendish ambition to propel humans into outer space.
ARTEMUS C. WARD Moose Jaw, Sask.
Politics y. Religion
Sir:
I am a Catholic and very proud to be one. I feel that it would be of great value if this country were to elect a Catholic President to disprove all the fallacies surrounding the now ambiguous "he." But as much as I would like to see a Catholic become President, I say that I would not vote for Kennedy. I have many reasons, the main one being his stand on the labor question.
KAY RICHARDS La Grange Park, Ill.
Sir:
I am Jewish, and I'm proud to say that I'll vote for the man I think best suited for the job regardless of religion—John Kennedy.
STUART GOLDFINE Cumberland, Md.