Need to support soldiers, war effort

To the editor:

Alan Journet asks a serious question about military deaths just ahead of his usual spiel.

First of all, Bob Dylan wrote "Blow'n in the Wind" in 1962. This was the time of the Cuban missile crisis and probably had more to do with Martin Luther King Jr.'s human rights march on Washington. Maybe he was thinking of Country Joe.

It's a horrible subject, but it is one American history has had to deal with time and again. Let's look at some history. There were 364,511 deaths in the Civil War, 116,516 in World War I, 405,399 in World War II, 36,913 in Korea and 58,184 in Vietnam. Horrible, each and every one of them. The total number of deaths in the 9-11 attacks on American soil was 3,030, and there were hundreds more dead in terrorist attacks around the world in the years before.

I can't answer Journet's question, but "Blow'n in the Wind" is not the answer. We need not only to support our soldiers, but support our war efforts. It's that important.

RANDY DUNN, Oak Ridge