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Letter: We all share a love of freedom

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I would like to compliment T.A. Leach for her occasional poems published in the Gazette Journal as "Poetic Reflections." She has addressed, in poetic mode and mood, a number of the issues that confront and comfort all of us, including those involving the forces of nature, grief, the association of friends and neighbors in the good times as well as the bad. "The Color of Freedom," published on Oct. 11, is a complementary addition.

Whether we personally have national political inclinations that are "red," "blue," or "independent," we all must share a love of freedom, the Bill of Rights, a belief that every child can succeed on the path of life with honest and unrestricted effort.

At John F. Kennedy’s presidential inauguration, now almost a half century ago, Robert Frost, "America’s Poet," stated the following:

"Firm in our free beliefs without dismay,

In any game the nations want to play.

A golden age of poetry and power

Of which this ...

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