When I was eighteen years old I joined a volunteer fire department. One of our long standing and well respected members was Brad, the father of a classmate of mine. Brad did not have the "advantage" of a higher education, his schooling was interrupted by a depression and a little fracas called WWII and he never went back after being away with General Patton for six years. Brad made a living as a repairman on oil furnaces and was perpetually "tattooed" with the fruits of his labors, at times it was hard to tell his race, kind of like a chimney sweep (which he also did.)seamusTX wrote:I've done that also; but realistically, who else is going to write such a letter?jimlongley wrote:I usually try to couch my letters in terms that expressly do not state that I am a CHL holder,..
I had a long essay on CHL confidentiality published in the newspaper, back when the legislature debated it in 2007. That newspaper has a circulation around 30,000; and nobody I know said Boo to me.
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- Jim
Brad wrote letters to the papers, very erudite and explicit letters, short and to the point, on any subject he felt concerned about, any subject at all.
I flunked my way through English classes, just barely making it through high school and only hitting my "intellectual stride" after I got out of the Navy.
Having learned, and laughed, with a master of letters to the editor, I started my missives in 1971, and have never stopped. I write about any issue that catches my eye and concerns me, from insurance rates and "health care reform" which we are all involved in, to disparate subjects that I have never had an interest in, up to and including businesses and stocks.
I read the paper, cover to cover, almost every day, and if an issue strike my eye, I write to the paper, sometimes agreeing with the article, most often disagreeing. I also started writing to people about anti-gun posting long before I was eligible to obtain a CHL, and have written to businesses in other states telling them of my plan to boycott them for their posting. I had a real interesting discussion with Best Western about one of their franchise motels in Ohio a couple of years ago, because of the sign displayed at the front desk, which resulted in my changing motels while the "assistant manager" blustered at me.
When I saw the sign on the credit union mentioned before, I quit, and this was right after my wife and I bought our house in TX, and we obviously were not yet eligible for CHLs, my letter to them told them that I was leaving them because of their attitude, not that it affected me directly. If they took it to mean that I had a CHL and that was why I was leaving, then it was because they didn't pay attention to what I had written, not that I stated it.
Again, assuming facts about me just because I wrote is likely to be an error.
