LOCAL HEROES
Kudos to operator for doing dangerous job
I wish to send a huge word of thanks to a HERO Unit operator named Mike who came to my assistance on I-985 recently.
In five o’clock traffic, I had a tire go out, and I was in the far left lane. I managed to get out of traffic and phoned 511. The operator arrived just as my blood sugar began to drop (I am a diabetic), and he completed the task of getting the damaged tire off my car and putting the spare onto my car.
I suspect this operator would acknowledge that he was merely doing his job. However, his job — as we all know — is a dangerous one. Other drivers shot by us at very high speeds. We had only a short distance between us and the traffic. With great calm and obvious strength, he did his job — but in the process, he aided me immensely.
Each of us owes Mike and other HERO Unit drivers a huge debt of gratitude. Thank you, Mike. I am one citizen who appreciates the job you do efficiently every day.
RONALD H. GRIZZLE, FLOWERY BRANCH
COMMENTARY
Libertarians provide needed 3rd viewpoint
So, here we have the AJC with no concept of balance beyond the left and the right. Then comes E. J. Dionne Jr. writing about a subject of which he is completely ignorant (“A libertarian state? We tried that once,” Opinion, June 10).
I am a life-long libertarian. Never once have we ever had the discussion of a “libertarian state.” Where is the “liberal state” or the “conservative state”? The AJC — and the rest of the media — will never give the dominant third point of view in America more space than this letter. Ignorance will continue.
MICHAEL HONOHAN, MARIETTA
AGRICULTURE
Ask Congress to back humane chicken care
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? In the case of federal legislation pending before Congress, the case is pretty clear that it’s time to start putting the chicken first.
H.R. 1731 would require that chickens used for egg production — long considered one of the most abused animals on factory farms — be given better living conditions. While this is cause for celebration, even better is that the legislation is supported by egg producers and animal welfare supporters alike, who compromised and got behind this important bill.
If your representative has not yet taken a stance on the legislation, please urge him or her to vote “yes.” When the major stakeholders all agree on a common sense, common ground bill like H.R. 1731, the best thing for Washington to do is to make it the law of the land.
DEBRA BERGER, ATLANTA
