LETTERS 11/29/07

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My husband just retired from the military after serving 24 years on active duty. Being that we are part of the U.S. Coast Guard family, unfortunately we are used to being forgotten or to people not realizing the Coast Guard is a branch of the armed forces.

There are Coast Guard units in both Kansas and Missouri: the Human Resources Service in Topeka and Information Center and an Integrated Support Command in St. Louis. I should hope in the future that all organizations and individuals will remember to include the men and women of the Coast Guard when honoring our service members.

Angela Smith

Lenexa

Border Showdown experience

All I heard and read on Sunday morning was how great the fans were at the KU-MU game. Here’s another perspective.

We sat in Section 107. Halfway through the third quarter, one of our group left our seats with his grade-school-aged son because of the abusive and foul language from the person behind us (even though his wife and father had asked him to stop).

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the same man got into a fistfight with a man in the row behind him. However, the security persons took away the other man and did nothing to our “neighbor,” who started the whole thing.

It is too bad that the kids we brought who were so excited about coming to the game had to miss the fourth quarter because of this man.

Pat Riley

Eudora

I could not believe all of the positive press this game received. As a 17-year-old college-bound student, I was disgusted by the some of the actions of the fans at the Kansas-Missouri game on Saturday.

Removing this game from Lawrence and Columbia was a mistake. It takes away the college feel of the game and replaces it with a lot of drunks who would not normally attend a game on campus.

Others argue that there were no incidents, but from where I was sitting, where there were some children, people yelling profanities and staggering around drunk is an incident enough for me. Is it really necessary to boo the dancers? Come on, folks! Can people grow up?

Having attended games in Lawrence, I was very disappointed in the environment at Arrowhead. It shocks me, as well, that either coach would give up home-field advantage. But I guess when money is involved you can get a coach to do anything.

Abby Sechrist

Overland Park

We attended the KU-MU Border Fiasco. We arrived outside of Arrowhead at 4:40 p.m. for the 7 p.m. game. It took us more than two hours to get into the parking lot. You can imagine the frustration of being routed past gate after gate, around and around.

We were finally directed to the overflow Lot L, where five lanes of cars tried to merge into one with no one directing. The car in front of us had been idling so long that its engine caught fire.

By the time we found a parking space and got to our seats, it was 7:30. We had to walk around to the other side of the stadium because they had already shut down many of the screening areas/entrances, even though tons of people were still parking.

The representative from Arrowhead told us that the parking was full because they had in excess of 30,000 fans without tickets tailgating.

Our city has worked very hard to get past the “Cowtown” image. How could we ever host a Super Bowl?

Betsy Rhodes Repine

Lenexa

Robert Rhodes II

Leawood

KU alumni

Torture is never OK

I’m not surprised to read a letter to the editor advocating crimes against humanity (11/21, “Limited use of torture”), given the tortured parsing of the present U.S. attorney general at his confirmation hearing. I shouldn’t be surprised since it’s apparent that, as a nation, we appear to base our morality, ethics and legal knowledge on the superficial content of television melodramas.

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