Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Here we go again. In the Sept. 20 opinion pages, letters from Russell Wuestefeld ("The end of our country") and Kendall Sentz ("Two visions for America") illustrate the great divide in our people. Both, I believe, served their country, and I thank them for that. Where I question their objectivity is how they view the government services/programs they have utilized versus those they find detrimental to America.

Assuming they both were career military (Facebooked them), they may both have received and continue to get government paychecks, would they have supported downsizing the military and civil service that supports them? How about cutting the hundreds of billions spent off books supporting our troops in the Middle East? Today would they close the VA? The VA is, by definition, the closest thing to socialism in the U.S., even after the full implementation of Obamacare. Owned by, regulated by, and workers employed by the government equals socialism. Would ...