OT:Letter to Southern Califonia newspaper that was not printed

nospambob · 2006-07-30T08:38:25+00:00

My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of theOrange County Register which, of course, was not printed. So I decidedto "print" it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Please passit along if you feel so inclined. Thank you.(signed) Dave LaBonte Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the OrangeCounty Register: Dear Editor: So many letter writers have based their arguments on how thisland is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we shouldtear down the Statute of Liberty because the people now in questionaren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Islandand other ports of entry. Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out topeople like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to acceptthis new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe tocome to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in along line in New York and be documented. S ome would even get down ontheir hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge touphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times.They made learning English a primary rule in their new Americanhouseholds and some even changed their names to blend in with theirnew home. They had waved good bye to their birth place to give theirchildren a new life and did everything in their power to help theirchildren assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. Nofree lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they hadwere the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to tradefor a future of prosperity. Most of their children came of age whenWorld War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parentshad come straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None ofthese 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about whatcountry their parents had come from. They were Americans...

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fredfighter 20 years ago

Now that we have established the proper spelling, would you not consider that absent Rosemary LaBonte's permisson, nospambob(atsign)vcoms.net has infringed her copyright by posting her letter?

Assuming of course, that the introductory story was true which is unlikely since as we all know, spammers lie.

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