More vandalism
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Dear Editor:

It was so nice when the grant to fix the rotunda at the old high school was received and the glass restored. It brought back some of the memories that were lost when the (vandal) burned the school.

Well apparently the (vandal) has clones. Not only have they stolen bricks from the memory walk and the flags that few on the flagpole.

Now, apparently they are not content to steal. They have decided to break the windows. The glass in the front has been shattered. Makes you think these Neanderthals have nothing better to do than tear up, steal or destroy something that does not belong to them.

Are people today not taught anything? Do they not have any respect for anything? Apparently not. Makes me glad I have not got much longer to live. As these idiots will be in charge of the country someday. Thank God I will not be here to see it.

I can only hope that they do not have something they care about destroyed by someone who has no respect for what is not theirs. I would also hope that money can be found to replace the glass with shatterproof glass. If the association was given money that was willed to them this could happen, but alas, people have not got any respect for others' wishes either.

In any case, I hope something can be done to catch the ones who are doing this. If the skateboarders who are always around know anything, I would hope they would have the common decency to come forward and tell. I guess I am thinking that there are still some people who have a sense of wrong and right, or am I mistaken in that feeling.

What we do we have to eventually pay for -sooner or later - be it good or bad. Call it Karma, Divine intervention, providence, it eventually catches up with each of us. I hope in this case it is sooner than later.

RICHARD MOORE, SALLISAW

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