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THE FT. HOOD SENTINEL Thursday Ja a ry 1 1987
Viewpoint
Editorials
&
By ARO COUCH
III Corps Public Affairs
commentaries
Tragedy waiting:
thoughtless parents
unrestrained kids
It’s not classed as “child abuse” but in my opinion
should rank near the top of the many ways people find to
mistreat their children.
IT NEVER ceases to amaze me how many parents
people whom I assume love and care for their kids
constantly put those kids at risk of serious injury or
death. Parents who wouldn’t dream of hitting their kids
with a ball bat seemingly have no qualms whatever about
putting them through the windshield of the family car.
Loving Moms who wouldn’t raise their voice to Junior
don’t think twice about crushing him against the
dashboard with their bodies. Fathers who think the world
of their sons don’t think for a moment about their being
thrown from the bed of a pickup truck.
“God loves fools” the saying goes “because he made
so many of them.”
It’s hard to find fault with that particular statement
because I see some of His favorite people trucking
around the highways almost every day. Oh not as many
as there used to be maybe and fewer in Texas than in
North Carolina say but they’re still out there. Lots of
’em.
MOST STATES finally have child restraint laws
telling Mom and Pop by way of the Law what common (it
really isn’t is it?) sense should have: when the car stops
suddenly Junior doesn’t. Few things aggravate me more
than seeing some ignorant clot of Motherhood whipping
down the street driving with one hand and holding a
months-old baby with the other usually in close
proximity to the steering column. It doesn’t TAKE the
education of a PhD to realize that the laws of physics
apply equally to all in a sudden stop—like hitting
another car say even at a low speed—Mommy’s Little
Dumpling is going to have his brains all over the wheel.
If he lives he may be all-kinds-of-nasty-things for the rest
of his life. If he doesn’t Mommy will spend years
bemoaning the terrible “turn of fate” which killed her
kid. Maybe just maybe Mommy will belatedly realize
that she had a hand in it as well.
CHILDREN trust their parents they have no choice.
They also have no direct experience on which to draw.
What’s the last time your kid asked you about a trip
through the windshield or the price of plastic surgery?
What’s the last time you even THOUGHT about things
like this? Certainly it isn’t the kind of thing most parents
like to dabble in but most do sooner or later and come
to realize that yes accidents happen and even Junior
can become a casualty. So MOST parents buy kiddie
seats and teach the older offspring to use seatbelts even
though they themselves may not. Parents for some
reason still think of themselves as being immune to
windshield impacts.
What’s really amazing of course is how very
few—statistically speaking—children pay the ultimate
price for their parent’s stupidity. Many of us I think
worry more about paying for Junior’s college education
than we do about his survival to that point.
In a world where there are already so many ways to die
it’s dumb beyond belief that some parents continue to
propagate yet another.
Street Scene
What is your N ew
Year's resolution for
1987?
PFC Leonido P. Tomagos Co
B 1-20 FA III Corps: “I want to
be abetter soldier.”
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Q: A caller discussed the
morale of the troops and the
quality of life that everyone
seems to be concerned with.
These policies don’t apply to
sports management around
Fort Hood. Recently in talk-
ing ith Ed Rich and com-
plaining about the officiating
of local football games it was
observed the 89th military
Police females playing a game
against another team. Again
the officiating was bad. It was
not only one-sided as far as
calling fouls and stuff but it
was also totally unfair to be-
gin with. First off they had an
in iv id a from the sam
organization as the players
officiating the game. This was
not cleared before the game.
After officiated four years in
Europe and being taught that
professionals go up to the
coaches before the game and
announce any conflict of in-
terest and if the coaches agree
then the offical can call the
game. If that is not done then
the offical should not be on the
Held. Secondly the individual
officiating was totally unqual-
ified and incapable of doing a
decent job. The head official
didn’t pay any attention to
this. On this occasion as well
as several other occasions the
officials did not correct their
errors. Instead of having the
eak ffic ia correct is
errors the strong officials
took on more area and took on
the entire game. Neither team
is penalized in the fact that the
game is played and the game is
over. The game was not played
for the players. All games
should be played for the play-
ers not for the officials. In this
case the officials were more
concerned with getting on the
field getting their money and
getting off the field. They do
not call obvious violations or
fouls. They do not concern
PFC Randy Domineck G-29
FA 2nd Armd Div: “To buy
some new clothes save money
and stay out of trouble.”
Sports officials questioned
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themselves with the morale of
the troops involved. This is
unprofessional and unfair.
Feedback is necessary and
somebody should care and
should officiate and somebody
should get this association to
become more professional or
disband it entirely. If you
don’t have enough officials for
the game then cut down on the
games.
A: The Fort Hood Officials
Association was established for
the sole purpose of supporting
the Fort Hood sports program
and ith everything consi-
dered they have done a superb
job. It is expected at any level
sports program that the offi-
cials fail to satisfy 50 percent of
the players on the field and all
of the fans who support that
team There are established
procedures for coaches to pro-
test a gam e if in fact the
assigned officials do fail to en-
force the rules of the game. A
complaint against any official
can be formally brought before
the President of the Official’s
Association at their meeting
11:30 a.m. each Monday (except
holidays) in the Fiddlers Green
Recreation Center. Mr. Rich is
the Assignments Secretary for
the Official’s Association and
was aware of this situation. He
had informed the 89th MP per-
sonnel of the above procedures
for formal co lain ts and
agreed that the particular offi-
cial would not be assigned to
that field in the future. Present-
ly Mr. Rich has a total of 72 offi-
cials. Of those only 34 have offi-
ciated football games before
Sp4 Sandra L. Haas Co F 4
MSB 1st Cav Div: “To stop
smoking and get in better
shape.”
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this season. To have sufficient
officials on the fields these new
officials must be utilized. These
new officials are critiqued by
the head official after comple-
tion of the game. This informs
the new official of his areas of
weakness he ust work on.
The alternative to the Official’s
Association is that each team
provide an individual to offici-
ate their game. This obviously
would not improve the officiat-
ing but would be a definite step
backwards. We have instructed
the officials to allow the teams
to play within their capabilities.
This means that the rules will
be relaxed equally for two
weaker teams to ensure that
penalties do not become a nega-
tive controlling element of the
game. Good experienced offi-
cials are the solution to the
problem.
Q. Concerning the policy
change that prohibits person-
nel from gathering wood that
is down on this installation
wood gathering will not take
place basically because some
people abused the privilege.
To totally take this privilege
away from people seems to be
a little harsh and it puts the
military people who depend
on wood in a predicament. It
a
amount of money if firewood
is purchased. It seem as
though Fort Hood is losing be-
nefits instead of gaining be-
nefits.
A: The question regarding
the termination of wood gather-
ing on post is a complex one
and the reasons behind this
PFC Ray Rodriguez HHC
17th Engrs 2nd Armd Div: “To
not drink so much.”
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policy change are many. It is
true the wood gathering pri-
vilege has been abused. The
Game Warden Section Provost
Marshal Office has prosecuted
an increasing number of wood
gathering violations during
each year the policy was in
ff t. is ry la r-
intensive effort prevents game'
wardens from applying them-
selves to enforcement of fish
and game laws and represents
a burden to the tax paying
citizenry as a whole which out-
weighs the benefits gained by
the individuals who gathered
wood. Howrever this is only a-
relatively minor reason why the*!
decision was ade to stop"
wood gathering. Fort Hood as
an Army installation has one.
primary purpose our nation’s
defense preparedness. O th^r
uses which involve natural
sources are governed by naf
ral resource policies. In genj
al these policies allow
which are nonconsum pi
such as hiking photograi
nature study and consumptl|
uses of surplus renewable re-
sources such as tro lle
tin and fish in se
which are prohibited are thoser!.
which exploit nonrenewable-
resources such as removal ofi
topsoil or archeological arti-
facts or uses which deplete a*
natural resource faster than it-
can be produced. Wood gather-!
ing is a good example of this
type of use. Scientific research-
conducted at Fort Hood overl
the past several years has indi-!
cated an unacceptable rate of
soil and vegetation loss espe-*
cially in woodland areas. MaC
ture trees are disappearing fas-]
ter than they can be replaced by
younger trees due to many fac-
tors of which wood gathering
is one. Dead trees which fall ter
the ground recycle nutrients to*
(See Smart pg. A7)*
1st Lt. Robert A. Taylor Co
B 228 AHB 1st Cav Div: “The
first thing is to be abetter pla-
toon leader. And abetter hus-
band.”
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