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Endorses Sen. Grassley

To the editor: In Iowa, your word is your bond, but actions speak louder than words. Sen. Chuck Grassley is a lifelong family farmer who understands the value of hard work, community, education, and family. He grew up on a farm in New Hartford. Iowa values run bone deep and through every vein of his body. This is demonstrated in the way he carries himself and represents our state. Grassley fights for fairness, common sense, and prosperity for future generations. I’ve been lucky to get to know Sen. Grassley over the past several years and he has always responded to any issues or ...

Pliners thank community

To the editor: Chris and I would like to give a big thank you to everyone who gave gifts of money towards our our home project from The Messenger article that was printed in the Aug. 28 edition. A very special thank you to our friend Sheri Gangsted for organizing this with The Messenger. This wouldn’t have happened without her. She has been a faithful friend through our journey. We feel very blessed from the people that thought of us and have given. Mathew 25:35- comes to mind. God bless you. As one good friend said this will be “The House of Love.” We are still working ...

Offers bet on speed enforcement

To the editor: This is my response to the view of Rick Morain of Sept. 29, 2021. I read with interest his experience with automobile drivers violating speed laws while driving in Mass., New York and Pennsylvania. Well, I regularly drive from my home at Twin Lakes to Fort Dodge and I would like to make a bet with anyone who chooses. We will drive from Twin Lakes to Fort Dodge by any route the other chooses – Highway 7, Highway 20, old Highway 20 or the correction road – at three miles over the posted speed limit. I will pay $100 for every vehicle we pass and the other will pay ...

End of a war is always messy

To the editor: Every war we’ve ever been in, leaving is always a fiasco. World War II we left Europe bombed apart and Russia took the biggest share of eastern Europe and split Berlin for years. Korea who actually won? No one wins and promising young people die. Vietnam, the North Vietnamese were in Saigon with tanks ready to roll on the last Americans there. We got out who we could and tried to save as many lives as we could. Every war we ever fought there’s never a clear cut ending. Did you remember all those Hueys being pushed off the aircraft carriers we were trying to get ...

Afghan withdrawal was a disaster

To the editor: Most Americans would agree it was time to end our military involvement in Afghanistan. The same number would likely find fault with the manner in which the withdrawal was completed. It is reported that Biden made the decision in April 2021 to end U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, the 20-year anniversary of the attack on America which had to be the most objectionable date for withdrawal one could have chosen. Did Biden and his advisers not consider the possibility of the Taliban regaining control of the country by then and what withdrawal on ...

Let’s move forward together, not backward

To the editor: As a Christian, veteran and always an independent voter, things have to change. Here we are not long after the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and so many family members are still waiting for answers and closure. In my 80 years, dad had always said you are a member of a Gold Star family. The government has got their fingers into many things. As my dad’s only brother and younger went from graduation to enlist. It saved my dad from being drafted as his number was right at the top when I was 2 years old. As years went by I got married, got drafted at 26. I served two years, ...