Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 26, 1990                   TAG: 9006260422
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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BIGGER OUTRAGE IS HOMELESS CHILDREN

No one protested?

The media did not cover the occasion?

Could it be that they want the attention?

Is the flag sacred, or is it a cloth symbol?

Are the same people who have become rabid over flag-burning as outraged as I was when I read that more than 250,000 children in this country are homeless?

How many people demonstrating (and worse) in front of abortion clinics have adopted unwanted babies? Who is taking care of their adopted babies while they demonstrate?

Also, turn Pax loose so that he can do what he does best: interest, antagonize, infuriate, make us want to kill him and, last but not least, make us think.

Before you ask: I have four homeless children and their mother in my home.

\ DOROTHY B. SHELTON\ MARTINSVILLE