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<td width="343" valign="bottom"><p class="date"><a href="default.html">4/23/04 • Vol.
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<td width="50%"><h1><font size="5"><a href="motherearth.jsp">All hail Mother Earth on her special
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<p class="byline">Son of Thunder</p>
<p class="byline">By John Brannon</p>
<p class="storyText">On this Earth Day plus one, let us take the
time to praise the giver of life, the faithful resource, the ever-present
god of this world, our mother Earth. For without our mother, we
would be left as newborn babes to seek out our own survival. Without
our mother, we would surely fall along the shores of the stormy
sea that is survival of the fittest. Without our mother, we would
be nothing. Let us not forget the error of our forefathers
who prayed to some faraway god. Let us not squabble about right
and wrong, appealing to a god that we cannot see. Instead, let
us pray to the god who is everywhere—in the wind as it blows,
in the grass as it grows, in the vegetation upon which we feed,
in birds of the air that sing from the trees, in the lion as it
roars, in my grandpa as he snores, in the water that gives us life
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<p class="storyText"><strong><font size="2">This generation has known
no conflict</font></strong></p>
<p>I must take issue with “A free Iraq is worth the fight.” (April
21) My main issue with this article has to do with the references
to my generation. I have to say that my generation does not know
a thing about struggling, fighting or war, and my generation certainly
does not
know anything about casualties. Six-hundred dead, that’s
nothing. I hate to sound insensitive but if you are going to talk
about war 600 dead is not a big number, and many of these casualties
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