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Your flag needs to be at half staff in honor of the death of a former president! [ Editor’s Note: Indeed it should have been, at least until this past Sunday. I don 'I have flag-lowering authority here at the Times, but I will pass it on to the folks that do to make sure next time it should be lowered that it is. With all due respect to former President George H.W. Bush, it was simply an oversight on our part] The President announces the war is over – we won. Last time it was the first President Bush and that proved to be wishful thinking. This time it is President Trump and there doesn’t seem to be much thinking involved. The suggested removal of troops must be terrifying for the Kurdish people who will be fearing another attack from Turkey.

The ideas involved may be too difficult for President Trump to understand so some sports models may clarify what could be a deadly event for some. If you are playing well against an enthusiastic but weaker team and think the game is over so you leave at three quarter time.

The other team will keep going and certainly win in the long run. You have to keep playing or you will eventually lose. Tweeting a win is not the same as actually winning.

Get back into the ‘game’ and finish everything. [Editor’s Note: Look, I’m not going to say this isn’t a terrible situation and that it's not worthy of attention from the international community, but let’s be real.

Most of us are just trying to keep the lights on and put food on the table. I’d wager that most hard-working, tax-paying Americans would love for there to be world peace but probably consider Turkey food for Thanksgiving and Kurds are something Little Miss Muffett ate with whey while she sat on her tuffett. You want to bash Trump, be my guest, but do it for something that really matters to American voters]

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I’m really enjoying the new style of the online edition. And the pictures are clearer and easier to read! [Editor's Note: Full disclosure… I wasn’t really sure anyone had picked up on the fact that the online edition had been tw’eaked. But yes, there's a focus on local “feature” type stories with the “news” part focusing on regional issues. At least I’m hoping that’s what you meant] Just as I suspected, you chose not to run the text I sent for fear of causing racial tension!

I can’t see much difference in what you printed on the one I sent! Mine was more or less a chastisement to the voters in West Memphis who would like to have seen their town progress, which on second thought I don’t guess they do!!! [Editor’s Note: I would love to know to what text you are referring, be cause I have run literally every text we have received for at least the past few months, even completely ridiculous ones about German terrorists, so perhaps you missed it. It’s very rare that I don’t run a text, and I'm certainly don’t have “fear of causing racial tension,” because it’s already here in our community. That’s like being afraid of throwing a bucket of water in the Mississippi River because you don’t want to get the river wet]

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