News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Regarding the recent public meeting held by the Oregon Department of Aviation at the Sisters High School: I expressed support for the move to be listed in "Appendix M" because the location and the potential benefit for the community support that listing. I still support that listing after attending the meeting. The primary attraction I have to the airport is not the fact that I have an airplane (which I keep at Prineville), but it is the important complement it offers to the 44 or so business park lots available for... Full story
"World War II was the greatest catastrophe in history. More people were killed and more buildings destroyed than in previous or subsequent wars. It brought terror and death to millions of civilians, women, children, old men, more millions of soldiers killed in their teens or twenties." - "Wild Blue," Stephen Ambrose. The huge cost of human life from 1940 to 1945 was largely the result of the destructive forces of air power. Air power was welcomed after the carnage of trench warfare in World War I. H.G. Wells had predicted as... Full story
Nobody likes war, particularly those of us who have engaged in it in a combat role and have witnessed first hand the demise of very talented, dedicated American soldiers and airmen. But, to allow our arm chair generals to simplistically declare that this war is about oil deserves comment. Our armed forces do not go into war for sport. They want peace just as much as the "peace" demonstrators. They differ in the methodology of achieving that peace. Iraq produced at its height of production about 2.5 million barrels of oil a... Full story
