Dunkirk at the Gulf Coast: Reader Response

Dear Editor,

Thank you for your article. I was thinking similar thoughts on the anniversary of Dunkirk, the same day that Obama remarked that the government was in charge and doing everything it could.

Dunkirk, where 600,000 soldiers were rescued by the combined efforts of the British people and their leader against impossible odds and an implacable enemy–snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. And on the great achievements accomplished during the space race, not only reaching space but creating the impetus for the continuing electronic revolution.

Now “do” seems to have been redefined as “a 30 second sound bite to commiserate over some tragedy, to garner sympathy and to distract the public in order to continue doing the usual self-interested agenda.” This is more in the line of “do” as “to cheat” as in “The men are trying to do Tom in a card game” as opposed to “finish; start and complete” and other useful “do” meanings. (Small Common Words Defined, L. Ron Hubbard)

An entire, simple strategy could be accomplished with a call to arms to the peoples of this nation to rise up and do something about it, to make it happen, whether an unemployed fisherman or an engineer with helpful ideas, but united in concerted action and common goal to fix the problem and restore “that which surrounds us”, the environment.

Thanks again,

Mark Carberry