THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, October 21, 1994 TAG: 9410210012
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A20 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
General Cedras is getting millions of dollars' worth of concessions for revolution, murder and mayhem. Given the Clinton administration's record of rewarding those who tear down and punishing those who work hard to build, it was only to be expected.
I would have enlisted Cedras in the U.S. military and sent him back to defend his country, where he would have been grossly underpaid for risking his life and being away from his family for months at a time.
Perhaps then his wife could have been made to feel like a criminal for going to a relief agency for help with paying rent because his enlisted paycheck didn't stretch far enough, only to be told that she wasn't deserving. She could have watched others buy houses while she couldn't afford to get new glasses or braces for her children and also eat that month. She could stand in line at the WIC office with unmarried, teenage, illegal aliens because after 15 years in the military, they would be still below the poverty level.
Cedras could be made to work countless hours of overtime without recompense, sweat months away getting shot at in still another two-bit country to be killed by the same angry mob that he was sent to keep from starvation, and have his body dragged through the streets.
Now that's fit punishment!
LINDA PERRON
Virginia Beach, Oct. 15, 1994 by CNB