Dear Editor, I know many of you are familiar, or have the
remark:
“I hate to see a grown man cry.” Well, I have some reflections
on that phrase. I am a grown man and yes I did cry and I shall tell
you why.
Dear Editor,
I know many of you are familiar, or have the remark: “I hate to see a grown man cry.” Well, I have some reflections on that phrase. I am a grown man and yes I did cry and I shall tell you why.
When was the last time you visited a nursing home and noticed elderly, wheelchair-bound people talking to and caressing a stuffed teddy bear, and they were thinking they were addressing a child of another time? If one is totally devoid of all emotion and concern, the wheelchair person could be yourself in later years or one of your loved ones not too far removed.
Are you not concerned with the chain of events? Consider: the wheelchair person at one time was the Cotillion Debutante, now old and alone and living on the caregivers and strangers, and you have no emotion? What kind of person are you in a civilized country?
I can understand the reason for this attitude, because this country sends a generation of young people from 17 years upward to fight for our way of life in foreign lands, and warehouses the elderly with an attitude of “out of sight, out of mind.” My conclusion is: We certainly are a compassionate conservative nation … makes one real proud to be an American.
J. Hamilton Khan, Morgan Hill
