I am writing in response to Mary Nosser’s letter in Sunday’s paper (about high schools not accepting free guided park tours).

Beechwood Elementary fourth-grade students are exposed to the wonderful historic places in Vicksburg. The fourth-grade social studies curriculum is based on the state of Mississippi. We spend the entire school year learning the framework of Mississippi and important facts about our state. Once we have covered a significant part of the curriculum, our students are taken on a guided tour of the Vicksburg National Military Park.

The students and teachers learn a lot of wonderful information about their historic town. Our students enjoy every minute of the tour. The tour guides are fantastic in relating the information on a fourth-grade level. They have exceptional knowledge of the history of the park. Our fourth-grade students learn the history of the state and have the chance to see it firsthand when touring the park.

An experience can last a lifetime and I believe the fourth-grade field trip to the Vicksburg National Military Park is a trip that the students never forget. If you ask a fourth-grader about Mississippi, he or she would be able to share many interesting facts with you.

Marion Margaret Hern

Teacher

Beechwood Elementary

Vicksburg

Opinions rooted in reality

In response to last Sunday’s letter from Mr. Jim Stirgus Sr, the only colors that should matter are green and white. As for his accusation that Vicksburg High School is shown a negative bias by the Post and school alumni, sometimes one needs only to look at how an institution itself functions to find the reason for its problems.

It’s probably time to throw those race cards away.

I close with a definition of character by Woodrow Wilson: “If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.”

Jay Jones

Vicksburg

Rights will soon fall apart

With the recent rise to power of the junior senator from Chicago, I want to congratulate those who voted for him. I certainly did not and do not support him. Here’s why:

The new prez says he supports banning the sale or manufacture of handguns. He also says, according to his limited voting record in Illinois, that he supports the ban or sale of semi-automatic weapons and ammunition for handguns. He also tells us that he is not in favor of concealed weapon permits for law-abiding citizens. Hunters and shooting sports enthusiasts, look out !!! He’s a-comin’ for ’ya!

Let’s not forget about Mr. O’s wife and her opining about our country. She’s proud to be an American finally!! Wow! Who paid for her college degree?

I predict that the next four years will prove to be the most destructive in the life of our country and that we will see divisiveness increase to new levels due to B. Hussein Obama’s elitist racism.  He also supports abortion rights openly. So, now, rather than championing the rights of those without a voice, one of the tenets of his campaign, he simply turns his back on them. Wow! What a president he’s gonna’ be !!

We’d better enjoy the next few weeks because after Jan. 20, rights will start to fall apart faster than a cheap suit. Oh, and let’s not forget about the additions that will likely be made to the White House. Let’s see, the Bill Ayers Library and the Jeremiah Wright “GD America” Bedroom.

Ron McCall

Diamondhead

Cameras do change priorities

The guest column by Tom Ramsey in Wednesday’s edition, “Traffic Violators Save Very Little, But Cost A Lot,” brought to mind a violation in Frankfurt, Germany, in which I was involved in March 1978.

We had been in the area for a couple of months enjoying our new surroundings; however it was on a Sunday afternoon while driving with my family that I failed to see a traffic signal at an unusual intersection. It was the middle of the week before the police advised me of the violation. I was furnished a vivid photograph of the license plate mounted on the rear of my ’76 Oldsmobile.

When I returned to that location, I can say that my first priority had changed to looking for traffic signals and only then observing the unusual sights for which Germany is noted.

The point is that we are debating an issue which it appears Germany resolved many years ago.

John Cesare

Vicksburg