Letters
Letters for 12-17-2008
Please don’t judge
Dear Editor,
This letter concerns an incident that happened recently regarding my child, Jacob Bivens. I would like to say that I understand any parents’ concerns over their child “hanging out” with mine since this incident occurred. But, I would also like to say, you do not know the FULL STORY as to what exactly happened, and the why.
I am not giving excuses for my child, not in the least. I am however, addressing the parents and anyone else who knows me and my child to stop and think “What if it were your child?” Would you want me to tell my son “So and so is NOT allowed here anymore because I read their name in the paper for whatever?” I cannot name parents specifically, or at least, I am not sure if I can, so I will not, but you know who you are. I KNOW your children and what they are doing. I KNOW what I have seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears from your kids. Your child/children come to my home. Your child/children have been involved in things and have yet to be caught. My husband and I have never turned a child away from our home, even knowing what they are up to away from their parents.
My son is a good child, raised in a good Christian home. Children make mistakes, just as adults do. I personally think that my son’s mistakes, or any mistakes of a child, are no different than grown men and women having affairs, or hiding their liquor from their pastor, etc....The differnce is my son’s name was spread on the newspaper and has been the “hot gossip” among many in the Hathaway and Jennings area.
If any one would like to share their concerns with me as one parent to another, you can find my number in the phone book listed under Joshua Benoit. Again, I don’t want anyone to feel as if I am excusing what my child did, but I do want everyone to know, that until you have been told the full story from my son or myself, do not judge my son, for yours, may be next.
“A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.”
Kandy Bivens Benoit
Jennings
Thanks for listening
Dear Editor,
Today I’m 81 years old, and God has given me the privilege of seeing the birth of a new day on this beautiful earth of ours. I’m also thinking how much we, the people, and our world, have changed. Is it for the better or worse? I think it went both ways.
I remember as a boy playing outside with other kids, or taking my dog running through the field or woods, and if we came across a small river, stripping bare and taking a swim. I’d then walk or run another mile or so before going home. My mother would then grab me by the ear and drag me into the house. A house to me was just a place to eat and sleep in. Nowadays, I see on T.V. they’ve got some kind of thing where the kids can exercise in the front room.
I’m sure glad I was born in 1927. Technology has also come a long way. We put men on the moon, built space stations, and yet our rivers, oceans, and earth are still polluted. It reminds me of people and politicians who can’t solve their own problems, but still stick their noses in other people’s.
We have people who murder, rape, and steal, and yet when they caught, we give them a lawyer, three meals a day and bed, and they then write letters about how bad they’re mistreated, sitting back and watching T.V. the rest of the day. We saw men build great industries and give people good jobs. Then, greed overcame them and they moved to Mexico and China, and instead of millionaires, they became billionaires. The companies we still have left pay these people millions to run them, and then they hop into their private jets and go to Washington. They tell the people they need a couple of billion dollars of taxpayers’ money because they can’t make it. I think a high school drop-out could do a better job then they’re doing. We have to find someway to get rid of these parasites.
So people of Jeff Davis Parish, I just wish to say this is probably my last letter to the editor. The fingers are just a little to stiff and achy. All I can say is it’s been a pleasure and privilege to do it. Thank you.
Stanley Anderson
Jennings
Representatives thanked
Dear Editor,
I wish to thank Jack Montouchet and Johnny Guinn for their help and foresight in cleaning up the Mermentau bridge.
There was no reason for a bridge in any community to be that filthy.
I want you that read this to help in other portions of our state by reporting places that need to be cleaned up. Speaking up really does help.
You can drive across this entire state and see very few, if any, anti-litter signs on our highways.
Trash crews have recently picked up at least fifty large plastic bags of trash in a four-mile length of U.S. 90 from the Mermentau bridge to the Jennings city limits.
We all need to assist in cleaning up our roadways and we need to pressure the city enforcement officers, sheriffs departments, along with our state troopers to hand out tickets to those without respect for our state.
It is really good to have two state representatives step up to the plate and get a job such as this done so quickly and without hesitation and excuses.
Thanks,
Dick Waltrip
Mermentau
