Birmingham Boston Terrier Rescue (BhamBTR) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of the Boston Terrier dog breed. BhamBTR takes any Boston Terrier, regardless of age, temperament and/or medical condition, and welcomes the re-homing of these dogs. Boston Terrier mixes are also an important part of our rescue. All Boston Terrier and Boston Terrier mixes are spayed/ neutered and vaccinated before placement, and all known medical conditions are treated appropriately. Boston Terriers are placed in the homes of loving volunteers, assessed for personality and then carefully matched to a home that will provide only the very best.
BhamBTR makes every effort to assure the best possible future for the adopting family and, most importantly, for the Boston Terrier being placed. A lengthy screening and education process is done before an application is approved. An adoption contract is completed, and post-placement follow-up is done. An adoption fee is charged to cover the tremendous veterinary expenses incurred by BhamBTR.
All members of BhamBTR are volunteers who own Boston Terriers themselves and are dedicated to the welfare and safety of the breed. Every member of our team undergoes the same screening process that is applied to all potential adopters.
Please visit our Web site at www.bhambtr.org
Donna Farmer
President, Birmingham
Boston Terrier Rescue
Birmingham
Mitchellville repeat
I have lived on Lincoln’s Mitchellville Road for 24 years and this road is as bad as watching reruns over and over. If a job is done right, it shouldn’t have to be done over and over and over. I am the one who is now going to speak out about the mess in front of my house. They tear it up and say it has to pack. If someone would listen to me I would not have a mess all over everything. We had a better road when it was just tar and gravel. The road was wider and I didn’t have to worry about someone coming over in my yard. As for people going too fast, this has always been a problem. People need to slow down and make everyone happier.
The reason this road torn up this time is because of poor paving and big trucks running on this road to correct another road. I hope when this road is patched, paved, or whatever you want to call it, it doesn’t tear up again.
I am tired of cleaning up after other people. It’s going to cost someone for ruining paint on new vehicles, cleaning windows, cleaning carports, and keeping this mess from being tracked in my house. I also get the rocks out of my yard.
Debra Thacker
Lincoln
Self-censorship needed
H. Brandt Ayers’ Oct. 15 column (“Hydra-headed monster”) begins with the opinion, “If you want to taste fear, then go to Iraq with the young soldiers and Marines in house to house combat as reported by journalists who were there with the troops.” It ends with, “What will we tell the brave young Marines — teenagers, many of them — choking back their fears and fighting on, endlessly? If we are honest, we will tell them the war was wrong. There was a better way.”
The column pitifully reeks with the author’s “choking back” his own fears in helpless prostration.
To the author, the young soldiers and Marines of which he speaks, would wish he ponder this message:
During World War II, columns in the vein of “Hydra-headed monster” were voluntarily “domestically censored” as one of the shared sacrifices of war for discerning American journalists. (See Michael S. Sweeney’s “Secrets of Victory,” a review at: http:// uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/ sweeney secrets.html).
These journalists understood that such columns (and defeatist responses to such) aided and abetted the enemy, emboldened the enemy to fight one more day, placing an American soldier in enemy cross hairs one more day.
As John Stuart Mill stated in 1865, “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
Armond “Si” Simmons
Pell City
