Published: January 09, 2008 10:01 pm            

Letters to the editor - Jan. 10, 2008

‘Shame on everyone who dishonors flag’

I am writing this, hoping you will print it.

I was at Wal-Mart yesterday and as I was leaving, I looked at what should have been the American flag. I was shocked when I saw it was in shreds. I thought this was disgraceful and shameful.

Not so long ago, I felt so proud to be an American when hundreds and hundreds of people from our town, in a cold rain, stopped to honor a young man that most of us didn’t know. But he fought and died along with other young men and women for our freedom.

I guess people are quick to forget how proud we are of our men and women fighting for us and our children.

I cannot understand why a big store like Wal-Mart would allow that to happen. After all, they sell at least 70 percent of products from China. After all, if our sons and daughters were not there, the bad guys would be here. The men and women in every branch of the service lay their lives down every day so big companies can make more money. But they cannot honor our heroes.

Wal-Mart, along with everyone else, should take a good look at themselves for dishonoring our flag. Nothing lasts forever. God will one day intervene and accounts will be settled. Shame on everyone who dishonors our flag.

Sharon Sharp

Kokomo

Literacy folks have poor penmanship

Reference, page B6 of the Kokomo Tribune, dated Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008.

Committed Howard County leaders who support family literacy. Full-page ad!

Question: Why is it that seven of the supporters of family literacy names are illegible in the ad? With the worst of indistinguishable being our new mayor.

I defy any student from second grade through college to decipher the mayor’s name, as the ad depicts!

Assuredly, the other six signers that lack legibility can make the effort to improve. A simple review of the ad names these leaders who contend to support literacy.

James A. Manton

Kokomo

Subdivision doesn’t need association

Hello, my fellow neighbors in Highland Springs and Webster Park subdivisions. I think it is important that we all come together and think to ourselves what could we do with an extra $175 every January.

OK, now let’s take action and get our community back. Then you need to think what has that done for you be endorsing a check over a homeowner’s association in Indianapolis!

They have no idea what your lawn looks like or if your fence is to code, unless a neighbor snitches on you. They don’t really care, for that matter. They just want the revenue.

I know you love the area as much as I do, and the builder thinks they have us since they slap you with a book of their rules and guidelines that you probably can’t even understand unless you are an attorney. They love to scare you and use tactics like your neighbor could be “Sanford and Son” if you didn’t have us.

People aren’t going to spend $165,000 and not mow the grass. There is quite a few foreclosures out here. I know they would be able to use the $175 on something.

The reason people lose their homes out here is because of super high taxes, not because there is something wrong with the house.

The truth is we don’t need a homeowners’ association. Yes, they are supposed to maintain the ponds, but if they didn’t, the city would. They don’t want you to know that. They do not treat the streams in our back yard. You know, the standing water that attracts mosquitoes.

We do pay tremendous taxes and with us being zoned Kokomo. The only reason the ponds were put in is because the builder received a huge sum of money for creating wetlands. They aren’t necessary for drainage. They could have easily put in sewer systems like the area right next to us.

How did you like the holiday decorations this year? Oh, that’s right, there weren’t any! How about our playground we are supposed to get? Oh, that’s right, it will be built with the new area and they are done building! Hello? How about the street lights, including our subdivision nameplate with burnt out lights? Or how about the snowplowing? No, wait a minute. City of Kokomo did that for us, not our homeowners’ association. How about our no fishing rule that isn’t even enforced? We have strange people trespassing in our back yards to go fish. The worst part is they are straggling over here from another subdivision. They aren’t even paying for the pond.

Did you know if 70 percent overrule, we can get rid of this? They aren’t doing anything for us, so I ask everyone to take their $175, and we all hire an attorney to wipe this once-a-year debt clean for once and all.

Connie Hoppes

Kokomo

        

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