Dear Sergeant Skipper,

I am an Alabama white man, combat disables veteran, and a member of DAV, VFW, Legion, etc. I saw your letter in Legion Magazine.

I can tell you from personal experience that it takes more guts to lead a peace demonstration in the USA than a combat charge in Vietnam. I have led peace demonstrations and combat charges. I was in Sicily, at Salerno, at Venafro, Cassino, Anzio, and in Normandy. I also spent a year POW after being wounded twice in Normandy and picked up by enemy medics. I was with the 82nd A/B division 504, 505, and 508 regiments. I have more than 5 wounds not counting minor wounds. I had five major combat campaigns. I have a sack full of combat awards and I am presently rated 110% plus combat disabled by V.A. I know all about war, and the causes of war.

I am opposed to war… all war! The peaceniks are the real hero’s of our times, they are the real patriots, and that doesn’t detract from you contribution nor mine in war. If more people had demonstrated for peace there would have been no WWII nor Vietnam.

Mr. Samuel Yette

Executive Secretary The Peace Corps

Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Mr. Yette:

     I am an Alabama white man, born and raised.  The problem of discrimination covers almost every aspect of life in the U.S.A.  You would be surprised at how much whites discriminate against each other.  You would probably be surprised at how segregated we are.  I am poor white trash.  I am not allowed access to the Dothan Country Club.  I do not, cannot, associate with my white betters.  These are irrefutable facts of life.  I deplore them.  But deploring them will not solve the problem.

Dothan, Alabama

Route 4, 36301

November 27, 1964

Dear Mr. Turville:

Your letter in our Birmingham Post-Herald deserves comment.  I am an Alabama white man, combat disabled veteran, Humanist.  I served in the ETO with our 82nd division, WW-2.  I was in your country during the war.  Many of your countrymen trained near my home, Selma, Ala.  USAFB...advanced school for fighter pilots.

Alabama Negroes are not fighting for integration or association..  Our black Americans are simply fighting for equal acccess to public facilities.

Dothan, Alabama

Route 4

July 2, 1964

Dear Mrs. Rose:

I want to thank you for your letter.  I am sorry that my letter upset your blood pressure.  But the truth is, we differ about certain things.  I am a born and raised Alabama white man.  I am also a combat disabled veteran, WW-2.  I was wounded many times.  And also spent a year POW of the Nazis.  I was in those death-camps.  I have known slavery.  Alabama under Gov. Wallace reminds of those Hitler death-camps.

Route 4, Box 456

Dothan, Alabama

17 December 1959

LIFE

Letter To The Editors

9 Rockefeller Plaza

New York 20, N.Y.

Sirs:

People of conscience will not deny a man the right to be president of The United States of America because of his religion-perhaps not even for his lack of it.  What has happened-and is still happening-is that people have grown skeptical of both church and politicians because church and politicians have ceased to CARE.  Perhaps they lack the capacity to CARE.

5 April 1965

The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson

President United States

Washington, D.C.  20005

Dear President Johnson:

We have progressed quite a ways since early 1960...proving that hard work and good planning can truly provide great accomplishments.  I want to make a few important points that government badly needs to know.

Route 4, Box 456

Dothan, Alabama

February 27, 1955

Hello Gerre:

I wanted to give you something very special for this very special occasion of yours.  I guess darling, I should be ashamed to admit, that these wings are all I have in the world that really has a value and a significance for me.

I've never been very good.  I've never been very brave.  But when they gave me these, they said I was brave.  So, maybe you'll think so too.  It's not very much for a person to show for living 34 years.

Route 4 Box 457

Dothan, Alabama

19 Sept 1963

Dear Dr. Norman:

It was good to see you.  Wish you could have been with us more.  Wish I had been able to show you around.  But my health is really very poor.  I saw the signs you put up.  One had canted.  I straightened it.

I have read the Cross and the Flag.  Is not Gerald L.K. Smith a fascist?  Seems like I read something about him.  Such stuff is very depressing to me.  I do not believe we are in that bad shape?  Do you?  I mean everything seems to come out all right.  I think these present troubles will pass away.

Dothan, Alabama

Route 4, Box 457

July 4, 1965

Dear Ann Landers:

I am a "four-time" loser at the alter of matrimony.  Four times I was engaged to be married, and four times the gal called it off.  Each gal gave the same excuse..."I love you too much to mess up your life."  These four rejections were spaced over a period of 10 years.  Each engagement lasted on the average of two years.