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Letter: Sense of fairness lost in today’s America

Sunday, June 3, 2007 | 7:12 a.m.

All my life I have had a patriotic zeal. At age 18, when the Korean War broke out, I enlisted and served with an infantry division in Korea. To this day, I still feel the effects of that service a half century later, but my loyalty is intact.

I am distressed however, over what is happening in our America. It is not the country I knew in the past. Let me give one example.

I know a family where the husband and wife work themselves to exhaustion to pay the wife's huge medical bills. In her condition the wife should not even be employed, but she works two jobs. Why? The hospital has turned her away for surgery that may save her life, unless she can come up with another $12,000.

Now, what I would like our government to tell me is why a hardworking, taxpaying American family must suffer this way, when people illegally in America can walk into our hospitals and get care for free.

Is there still justice in America?

Walter E. Gunther, Las Vegas

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