Letter to the

E ditor Focus on the important things

To the editor: I open by asking all who read the most recent Tribune: I’m sure you could not miss the front page. Really, who wants to see a destructive weapon such as an Abomb in our small town local paper?

I do realize the atom bomb is from WWII and that war has been over longer then most can even remember. That goes for the Korean war as well - or is that “war” ever over?

Survivors of those wars are very fewbut I’m one. I’m 70 years old and I survived. I truly am.

My father and father-in-law were directly involved in both wars. My fatherin- law lost his life in the Philippines during the Korean war and he served in the South Pacific in WWII. My dad got up close and very personal with the atomic bomb.

Everyone has heard of Las Vegas: a fun place to go and gamble. Fun filled casinos, cheap food, great hotels (used to be anyway). Don’t get me wrong, I love Vegas. Actually, it’s the place listed on my birth certificate. Place born: Las Vegas, Nevada. But I was born in a wooden barracks (hospital) on Nellis Air Force Base outside Vegas.

My dad was stationed at Camp Desert Rack in the 50’s. My mom and I lived off base in Indian Springs, now known as Creech ABF, Nevada.

Nevada was then or even now is a test site. In the 50’s they dropped the A-bomb right there in the desert. Little known at the time, people there and about also became test subjects. So many died from different forms of cancer in the years after.

My dad was on the frontlines of that test. Luckily, he did survive in the years after he served. He did however die from leukemia at the end.

My mom told us she could see the huge mushroom clouds formed after the bomb detonated. They rose high over the Nevada desert and the wind could blow that cloud for miles.

The consequences of this horrific instrument of war was death, then or later.

Japan knows this very well. It brought hideous death and destruction. It killed unmercifully.

This bomb is not to be revered or recreated in any form.

At such a critical time in our history (this year 2022) we need to focus our energy on ways we are going to survive the coming food shortages (not so much the cost) but will we even have food to purchase in 2023? Our fuel crisis...?

We are sending aid to other countries when our own people need so much help. Food pantries are at a very low point at this time.

I believe in the near future we will have to come together to survive and pray a hydrogen bomb is not dropped on the U.S.A. A hydrogen bomb is 1,000 times more powerful then an atomic bomb. The U.S.A., Russia, United Kingdom, China and India “supposedly” have thermonuclear weapons. A hydrogen bomb.

Jan Fleenor Abbotsford