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On Monday we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Thank God for Martin Luther King Jr. who stood up for right against all odds. Tuesday was the anniversary of Rowe vs. Wade, which made abortion legal. Hundreds of thousands of pro-life demonstrators convened in Washington, D.C., protesting the legalized murder of the unborn. This reminds me of slavery. In 1857, the Supreme Court decided the slaves could not be free and were not citizens. They were the property of slave owners. But Abraham Lincoln is the one who emancipated the slaves. Thank God. In 1973, the court decided that the unborn were just the property of the mother and could be destroyed, at least in the first trimester of pregnancy. Our former president even believed in state-funded partial birth abortion, but thank God we have a Christian for President who does not believe in murdering innocent life. Thank God for Abraham Lincoln who, while he was president, emancipated the slaves. Right is right even if nobody believes in it. Wrong is wrong even if the Supreme Court legalizes it.

Someone recently called SpeakOut about Dexter's sports program and the fact that they never go up against New Madrid County Central. The caller stated that it will never happen. Well, never say "never," because they will be playing at New Madrid County Central on Jan. 31.

It fascinates me. It doesn't take these goody-goody- two-shoes people in the government and in high places who say we're mistreating these terrorists that we brought over from Afghanistan. Do they forget how many people Hitler killed? Do they forget the Twin Towers? We didn't ask these people to come over here and tear our Twin Towers down? Do they know how many people these people have killed? Think about the two missionaries who are over in the islands and there was an American with them and they cut his head off. We're taking good care of these Afghan people in Guantanamo and they're saying we're mistreating them already. What kind of people do we have up there in charge of the government? They're nuts! These people, if they had the Americans over there, they have already mistreated them and tore them up and killed them. And here you're talking about is mistreating them. We wouldn't have gone over there if they hadn't come over here and terrorized our country. And here you're trying to tell me that we're doing the wrong. Man, I don't know what you Americans are thinking about. I spent 2 1/2 years in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany during World War II trying to straighten all this out, and you people are telling me that I didn't do any good.

I am so tired of the bleeding hearts about the prisoners we have in Cuba. I have a cousin who lives in Missouri. I'm sure you could talk to him and his family. He was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. They say that if they are POWs they can't question them. Well, he was a POW and he was tortured repeatedly. I wonder what they think. Was this humane? I don't recall anybody saying if they asked those people at the Pentagon or if they asked those people at the World Trade Center if it was OK if they killed them? How about our own prisoners? When we move them from one place to another, they are handcuffed, they are shackled and most of the time they have a boot on their heads. At least they have a good, warm place to sleep in every night. They have three good meals a day. No one is beating them. No one is torturing them. No one is killing them. So until that happens, I suggest they shut up and think about all the lives that we lost because of them. And if they want to be humane, go talk to those people in New York. Let's see how humane we felt when they bombed us. They used our own aircraft to kill us. I'm sick and tired of hearing about Afghanistan and their prisoners. They need to come over here and talk to us and see how we feel.

I just read Michael Jensen's article about prison reform. I know firsthand that there are some people in there who may have caused an accident, not intentionally, who is supposed to have been a violent crime. I happen to know this was an accident. This person got a lot of years and I'm sure he can become very bitter for this because he knows he wasn't out to hurt anybody.