What’s with the security for football coaches?
Can you explain why every major college football coach, as well as every professional coach, has a uniformed police officer or two on the field with them? You don’t see that at basketball games where the fans are practically on top of the coaches. If they need protection so badly, I suggest they get a dog (in uniform, of course). Incidentally, who pays for this “security”?
BERNARD J. ROSS, WOODSTOCK
Blacks served both sides in Civil War
When a writer chortles that the very notion of black Confederates is a “myth,” and dismisses anyone with evidence to the contrary as disreputable, said writer should have a basic command of the subject on which he pontificates. (“Why black Civil War soldiers’ stories are a challenge for museum,” News, Nov. 27). The article states: “It wasn’t until April 1865 that the Confederate Congress voted to arm blacks.” Anyone with an elementary grasp of the Civil War knows that Richmond fell on April 2. Therefore, there was no functioning Confederate congress in April 1865 that could have passed this act. In fact, the Virginia Legislature in early March passed a resolution approving slave soldiers. The Confederate Congress followed with an act authorizing black regiments on March 13. Within days, two companies were organized and drilling in Richmond. If your writers, who regularly inflict us with one-sided, South-bashing Civil War dogma, cannot even get a simple fact such as this right, why should we take seriously their positions?
AMANDA WARREN, BUFORD
Transit is common to great cities
I truly appreciate Bill Torpy holding regional leaders’ “feet to the fire” regarding transportation issues for metro Atlanta. (“Johns Creek slams the door on MARTA,” Torpy, Nov. 30). I am sad to hear that Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker and Councilman Bob Gray’s negative attitude toward MARTA extension has reinforced the concept of “luddite” here in the very heart of the so-called most educated, prosperous and progressive city in North Georgia. Go to truly exemplary international cities such as New York City, Boston, London, Chicago, Paris, etc;, and one is amazed by how efficiently one travels to all corners of these great metropolitan cities using rapid rail transit. While Gray, Bodker and others bury their heads in the sand as to transit issues, I commend State Sen. Brandon Beach of Alpharetta and Sandy Springs’ Mayor Rusty Paul. Their welcoming of MARTA is the real face and voice of visionary, long-term thinking.
SALPI ADROUNY, JOHNS CREEK
