When I saw what the teacher was doing at the post office, tears filled my eyes | Letters
Yesterday, I ventured out warily to mail a birthday present to my daughter in New York. What I encountered at the post office brought me to tears.
Ahead of me, appropriately more than 6 feet away, a woman cradled a box of manila envelopes. She took one out and laid it on the scale, saying, “They’re all the same. I have 24. I am mailing books to my students.”
Trying to get the best price for her, the postal worker came up with $2.50 each. She spent $60 mailing these books to her students and no doubt much more than that purchasing the books.
This is not a small amount of money for a teacher.
I thanked her and told her how touched I was by her thoughtfulness.
She added that she had been up half the night writing personal letters to each child.
Tears came again when I tried to tell this story to my husband.
That woman was a hero to me.
During this terrible time, we are seeing the best in so many people: doctors, nurses, and, yes, teachers. I feel privileged to have witnessed this moment.
Susan Julavits
Okatie
Hilton Head Town Council decision on overnight lodging needs a challenge
It was with dismay that I learned that the Hilton Head Island mayor and Town Council had reversed their decision to close the island for monetary reasons.
A reasonable person would conclude that this decision puts the citizens of the island in danger of harm, up to and including death, from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even the mayor should know that the town is composed of a disproportionate number of retirees, the very population most vulnerable to the illness.
I call on appropriate public prosecutors to examine grounds for bringing charges against the mayor and Town Council for reckless endangerment, and to investigate the possibility of corruption.
I call on the citizens of the island to bring a class action lawsuit against the mayor and Town Council for their reckless misconduct.
I call on The Island Packet to provide a place where citizens can send either letters or e-mails joining the aforementioned lawsuit.
I call on attorneys of the island to provide legal assistance, up to and including representation in a court of law.
I wish to attest that I am a citizen of the island and that I have had no contact with any attorney nor law firm concerning this matter. I also wish to declare that if my wife, also a retiree, should come to harm as a result of the Town Council’s decision, I plan to bring suit against the mayor, the town, and any rental agents who directed this decision.
With kindest regards to my fellow citizens.
Jay R. Taylor
Hilton Head Island
Gas prices way out of whack on Hilton Head
Hilton Head Island gas stations are gouging us with prices still above $2 per gallon. You can buy gas in the Myrtle Beach area for $1.45 per gallon. Sixty-cents a gallon above other cities in South Carolina is ridiculous and shameful.
Ronald Lewellen
Hilton Head Island
The left’s true endgame
By use of radical district attorneys, impeachment, identity politics and open borders, the American left seeks to create chaos. Why? I found an excellent article in the July 3, 2019 American Thinker entitled “The Left’s Endgame Is Not Chaos. It’s Worse,” by Robert Vincent.
He states that the chaos created by the “progressive left” is a means to an end.
He writes: “Writ large, what the self-styled ‘progressive left’ is selling amounts to is a modern version of feudalism, in which a self-appointed elite, whose status is maintained by promotion of a self-serving ‘progressive’ neo-Marxist dogma, is anointed to tell the rest of us peasants how we must live our lives, not unlike the ‘Divine Right of Kings.’ ”
Vincent closes with: “That is what the left wants. It isn’t chaos. It is integration into global feudalism. In the end, if they are ‘successful,’ American society will be saddled with a permanent belligerent parasite immigrant class (brought about by ‘open borders’), a greatly reduced standard of living for most citizens, our Constitution made an irrelevant relic, Islamism unbound, and subservience to a China-dominated world.”
With Justice Department investigations, the left’s conduct is coming to light. The elites are sensing the rumble of the tumbrils on the cobblestones as Madame DeFarge continues to knit. Our left is panicking!
In the meantime, Lenin’s “useful idiots” in our legislative bodies, academia, media and elements of the Deep State, should start questioning their ideological toilet training.
Carter Swenson
Beaufort
America, be grateful for Nancy Pelosi
The United States would be in a world of hurt if it were not for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She more or less has saved this country from numerous disasters over the past year and was the major force in developing, modifying and passing the legislation necessary to save the country from a fiscal disaster.
The administration has been singularly unhelpful, uninformed and more concerned with spewing hate and being divisive than trying to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. First downplaying it, then demagoguing anyone who disagreed with President Donald Trump’s “expertise,” and then lying that he always knew it was serious. It is difficult to call him president when he acts more like a carny barker than a leader.
Thankfully, there are other actual leaders who stepped into the breach, mainly Democratic governors, who took action immediately. Without their swift attention to the health crisis, we would be in much worse condition than we are now.
But, first and foremost, Pelosi has been the voice of sanity who pushed the Senate leader and the occupant of the White House to do something meaningful. Without her leadership, these recently-passed legislative programs would have been far less impactful than they will be. She pushed to make sure that the general public, not corporations, benefitted the most and she is now pursuing legislation to bolster the economy despite the White House and Senate leader’s protests and foot dragging.
We should all be thankful that Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House.
Richard Hammes
Hilton Head Island
Democrats making pandemic experience worse
Why would any sane person ever support someone from the Democratic Party?
Our country, along with the world, is locked in a deadly pandemic. Democrats are finding it impossible to work with the U.S. president in order to bring economic relief to U.S. businesses and individual citizens. Their hatred of the president is so strong that they are unable to focus on the welfare of the nation.
Democrats have stalled government assistance by adding baloney amendments to a basic government relief bill. They wanted support for solar energy, open borders, the arts and Big Labor initiatives. Come on, people, Americans need help.
Now is the time for all citizens to support our president in the war against a “China virus” that has crippled the world. We are in the middle of a national emergency, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the “egotistical twins,” want to play games with a national recovery program.
President Donald Trump realizes how serious the situation is and has said he will “do whatever is necessary” to defeat the virus. He realizes that Americans need help, sooner rather than later.
Can anyone imagine what would be happening with “sleepy Joe Biden” in the White House? Once he woke up, it would be chaos.
The president has gathered world-class experts and followed their guidance on how to handle this emergency. But they need our assistance to make it all work. We need to work together as one people, not separate political parties.
Clifton Jester
Bluffton
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