LETTERS: WRITER SHOULD PROMOTE HEALING, NOT DIVISIVENESS

To the editor:

My sister, who is white, went to vote in Indiana and was turned away. She said this had happened before. My sister works very hard at her job, so it seems a shame that she was turned away at the polling place.

It was not just blacks being turned away in the November election. Louie King wasn't right to say George W. Bush came by the election unfairly. Our men and women in the military deserved to have their votes counted, and Al Gore attempted to deny this.

According to a PBS special, Abraham Lincoln one of the greatest presidents this nation ever had -- won the presidency with only 40 percent of the popular vote.

This letter writer would have done well to work toward healing this nation, not keeping it further divided.

MARTHA THOMPSON

Jackson, Mo.