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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Attacks in India

I was appalled to open the paper on Thanksgiving and find the story of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India relegated to Page 2C. The front page carried shopping and football news.

As someone said to me, "How would Americans have felt if, after 9/11, news of the attacks were relegated to the back pages of world newspapers?"

The death toll is 125 and Americans were targeted. I don't know who is responsible for front-page news at the Advertiser, but more often than not, I have been critical of what is considered "front page news" by your staff.

All of you need to remember that not everyone has cable or satellite news and/or Internet.

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I am a retired legal secretary and widow. I grew up in Midway, AL and graduated from Union Springs High School (now Bullock County High). I attended business school; went to Atlanta and lived there for 13 years; lived and worked in Silver Spring, Maryland for seven years. I have a daughter and two granddaughters, and am the middle child of five. Both parents are no longer living. My mother was quite a poet and my father was a self-taught musician and a very good one. My 30-year-old nephew, Bruce Evans, was killed in the line of duty with the Jackson County, MS Sheriff's Department on July 18, 2000, leaving a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, ages 8 and 5 1/2, so I suppose that pushes me to make my voice heard about crime and punishment.

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