Letter to the Editor

Some lessons from history

A few lessons from history would be in order for today. Nearly 134 years ago, on the battlefield of Little Big Horn, Sioux women went about stripping the bodies of dead troopers, and when they came to the body of Gen. George Custer, they poked wooden skewers through his ears. Since he had not heard their cries on earth, perhaps he could hear them in the afterlife.

Obviously, we have a Congress full of legislators who cannot or, more likely, will not hear the cries of their constituents. Where, O Lord, are the ghosts of those Sioux women? We desperately need them now.

Another lesson would come from Oliver Cromwell addressing the English Parliament in 1653 and later from Conservative Member of Parliament Leopold Amery addressing Neville Chamberlain (another appeaser): "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."

JAMES ROCHE, Jackson