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Letter: Demonstrators are only free here

Friday, Oct. 25, 2002 | 9:07 a.m.

As I was leaving the Nellis air show on Oct. 6, I noticed demonstrators at the main gate holding signs and writing something on the sidewalk. The signs were all about peace with Iraq. I wasn't in a position to see what they wrote on the sidewalk. The base security police eventually came out and chased them away. I am assuming it was because they were on private property.

I spent 20 years in the Air Force (retired in 1996), and though I am against a war with Iraq, I support my government 100 percent. I also support the rights of those who were demonstrating. That's what freedom and our government is all about. You can't pick and choose.

I'm sure those demonstrators were free to pack it all up, go home and do it all again another day. If they were in Iraq, they would be free to demonstrate one day only. Because the next day they would be shot.

JOE MISKECH

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