The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1981 Page: 5 of 28
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I ’m a little confused. Just which side of the feminist
question is the Fort Hood SENTINEL on?
I’VE BEEN READING your paper for a number of
years and I thought that I had you pegged pretty well.
Over th years th SEN TIN EL has usually over-
publicized and glamorized women in the Army. I’ve seen
-.problems like rape wife abuse female harassment re-
hashed over and over while problems of male soldiers
ent unnoticed. Based on that I’d have said until last
week that the newspaper was obviously biased in favor
of women.
Thert last week you ran two cartoons (pages 8-B and
6-C) that I’m sure the gals would call sexist. They were so
blatantly anti-feminist that even I noticed and.I’m no
advocate of equal rights for women.
So at’s up SENTINEL? Have you guys just
v: changed sides on the feminist question?
Ed.’s Note Did you ever have one of those days?
Luckily this is one of the few letters we’ve received
complaining about those cartoons. I say luckily because
if every reader who called last Thursday and Friday to
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That reader feedback led us to reevaluate the cartoons
in question. And yes they are decidedly sexist
although the woman who drew them didn’vt think so at
the time and neither did the female editor who accepted
them. But even worse is the fact that both cartoons un-
fairly represent soldiers regardless of their sex as
dumb inefficient and lazy. To the readers who were so
justifiably outraged by these illustrations we sincerely
apologize.
THE SENTINJ2L HAS traditionally used cartoons to
reflect humorously on typical problems in the lives of
soldiers and to satirize perceptions of military life with-
out necessarily commenting on the validity of those per-
ceptions. However none of our cartoons were ever in-
tended to give offense as the ones in last week’s issue
did. In a word we gopfed badly.
By way of explanation (while knowing full well that
there is no excuse for an oversight of this kind) it takes
over 3500 column.inches of articles pictures^ cartoons
and ads to fill an issue of the SENTINEL each week 51
weeks a year. Ppuring over the miles of paper and gal-
lons of ink required to fill the paper we sometimes make
errors in judgment. In this case we must have been
blinded by a flash of the obvious.
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“In like a lion out like a lamb” is an age-old maxim
when referring to March’s weather. The supposition is
that bad weather at the beginning of the month will lead
to good weather as the month turns into April.
BUT MARCH’S opening days have not been known
only for the weather. A look at a calendar will show a
number of events which played significant roles in the
developing of the country’s history both politically and
militarily.
Today for instance marks the 211th anniversary of the
Boston “massacre” one of the major events leading to
open hostilities between the American colonies and
Great Britain five years later.
It was on this date in 1770 that British troops garri-
soned in Boston then the hotbed of the growing rebel-
lion fired on and killed several protesters following an
altercation in which the protesters pelted the soldiers
with snowballs.
The “massacre” in actuality only five civilians were
shot by the soldiers—was to become a major rallying cry
among those looking-for independence. And five years
later when another British detachment marched to Lex-
ington and Concord the cry was again raised in the first
shots of the War for Independence.
An equally significant event although it never re-
ceived the public acclaim the Boston “massacre” did
was celebrated yesterday in the observance in some
states of U.S. Constitution Day.
Yesterday marked the 192nd anniversary of the im-
plementation of the oldest federal constitution in exist-
ence. It was March 4 1789 when the constitution be-
came the governing law of the land replacing the Arti-
cles of Confederation.
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Officially sent to the states Sept. 171787 for ratifica-
tion it was not until June 1788 that the ninth state New
Hampshire gave the document its approval setting in
motion the necessary steps to put the law into force.
FIFTY YEARS ago last Tuesday the United States
finally got an official national anthem following adop-
tion of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Actually however the history of the “Star Spangled
Banner” goes back to Sept. 131814 when Francis Scott
Key was detained by the British fleet during the shelling
of Fort McHenry at Baltimore during the War of 1812.
Upon seeing the flag still flying above the fortress the
next morning Key penned the words and the poem soon
became popular as sung to the tune of a British song “To
Anacreon in Heaven.”
Although the Army and Navy early adopted the song
and their anthem for playing on special occasions it was
not until March 31931 that it became the official song of
the United States.
Two days during the first week of March have special
significance here in Texas.
March 2 is observed as Texas Independence Day com-
memorating the action in 1836 that broke relations with
Mexico and established the Lone Star State as an inde-
pendent republic a status it maintained until its annexa-
tion as apart of the United States nine years later.
TOMORROW TEXANS observe the 145th anniver-
sary of the fall of the Alamo and the death of its 180
defenders at the hands of Santa Ana’s army March 6
1836. “Remember the Alamo” became the war cry of the
Texans who gained their independence following a deci-
sive victory a month later in the Battle of San Jacinto.
March may come in like a lion weatherwise but it has
also been known to come in like a lion historically.
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