Value of a Phone Call for GIs and Families
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Re “A Call for Grown-Ups,” editorial, May 10: The cellphone incident involving a 17-year-old high school student in Columbus, Ga., talking to his mother who is serving in Iraq was handled poorly.
I am a veteran and know firsthand what it is like to be stationed halfway around the world. Just a word of encouragement from home is salvation for a weary soul.
School administrators in this case do not have a clue about being understanding. They need to be retrained in human relations.
Or maybe the school administrators should be sent to Iraq, so they can experience firsthand the importance of a call home. Then maybe they would allow a lonely teenager to take a phone call from his lonely mom who is stationed far away in a combat zone.
Timothy Stanley
Rosemead
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