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Celebrating Veteran Supporters

Weirs Times SportThoughts columnist Mike Moffett sits astride Emma at Moonshadow Farm in Epping, NH, where “Operation Renewed Freedom” helps veterans in need of healing. COURTESY PHOTO

Horseplay, Heroes And Hope by Mike Moffett

“SportThoughts” Columnist

Who amongst us has never been on a horse? While no equestrian, I did once recklessly mount a big old horse

roaming my grandfather’s apple orchard on his remote back farm in Lunenburg, Vermont— way back when I was 11 or so. My cousin Kenny used apples to lure

the horse over next to a big rock. While the horse was distracted by Kenny, the plan was for me to leap onto the rock and then onto the horse and then ride the horse around the

farm and then surprise the adults back at the farmhouse. The fact that I knew nothing about riding horses didn’t stop me. It couldn’t be that hard. See MOFFETT on 26

NHCares invites you to a public celebration of winners of The Protzmann Awards on September 14th at The Flying Monkey in Plymouth, NH. Protzmann Awards are given in recognition of outstanding service to veterans and their families by members of New Hampshire communities from across the state. This free event kicks off at 5pm and includes appetizers, a program honoring award winners and an ice cream social so be sure to register early as seating is limited for this unique celebratory event. Protzmann Awards are given in memory of Brigadier General Carol Protzmann who served 35 years in the U.S. Air Force and New Hampshire National Guard. BG Protzmann passed away in March of 2020 and this award reminds all of us of her commitment to the well being of the New Hampshire military community, including and especially military families. Winners exemplify her spirit and have demonstrated dedication to honor, serve and remember those who commit to defending our country. NHCares.org is an initiative of the New Hampshire Community Veterans Engagement Board who works with the VA to ensure the needs of New Hampshire veterans are met today and in the future. Please register for this free event at www. NHCares.org.

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To The Editor: I watched the Dignified Transfer of the remains of the fallen from Kabul from Dover Air Force Base on Sunday. Heartbreaking, especially as we hear the stories of some of these Marines, the corpsman (Navy medic) and Army staff sergeant; one female Marine was only 25 and from Lawrence, another female Marine’s last instagram post was reportedly of her holding an Afghani baby outside the airport saying “I love my job”. 20-yearold Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum was just married, his wife is due with their first baby in 3 weeks. It is horrible to lose our truly best people in places like this, but having served in Kabul alongside people like this (I spent most of my time inside the base, protected by heroes like these ones, and the 20 injured Marines and soldiers recovering in Germany today) I know that if they weren’t our best, they wouldn’t have been the ones at the gates. Like all Americans watching I felt grief and some other emotions above all else, but having just read Senator and Army/Old Guard/OEF veteran Tom Cotton’s book “Sacred Duty” about the Old Guard that conducts, supports, and coordinates all Honor Guard operations including these Dignified Transfers, I found myself also more closely watching the process. From Senator Cotton’s meticulously researched book, as I watched Marine Honor Guard troops flawlessly perform these trans-

fers, I knew that while these Marines were not in the Old Guard (an Army unit, the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment), the Old Guard subject matter experts had surely worked diligently for long hours with the other branches’ Honor Guard Details to be ready for this solemn mission, as well as their own, the Dignified Transfer of Army Staff Sergeant Ryan C. Knauss. The details about logistics and ceremony certainly pale in the face of the human loss, but by learning about the Old Guard I now had a far greater appreciation for just how important it is for these details to be ready and to be perfect in a Zero Failure mission. The Dignified Transfer is only the portion occurring at Dover Air Force Base where the remains of the fallen return to the United States, but these 13 details will follow all of the remains of these heroes to Arlington Cemetery (a member of each detail will be physically with the remains at all times until internment), conduct the full honors burials with families present, and present the colors to these families. None of this of course will bring back the fallen, but this mission is absolutely massively important to the families first and foremost, but also crucial to the country in honoring the ultimate sacrifice made on our behalf in as meaningful of a manner as is humanly possible. That is the Old Guard’s mission above all else, and these families deserve no less. Nick McNulty Windham NH.

Hoover and KGB To The Editor: In my last letter-to-the-editor in July, I introduced readers to the book which all Patriotic Americans Need to read: Masters Of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It, by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI (New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1958). Among the important things that Hoover exposed in his Superb book was that he identified and defined a number of Secret Communist Codewords-known only to Communists (and, of course, the FBI Agents who investigated them). Hoover also Exposed how Commun ists Smear their opponents with False allegations of being “racists” or “fascists”-depending upon the extent of their anti-Communism. Please Note: while Hoover warned us about this Communist Smear tactic in 1958, Communists were still able to effectively use it against Donald Trump in 2016-2021. People Need to heed Hoover’s words. What Hoover also did was to expose the fact that Communists are, indeed, Masters Of Deceit--hence, the title of his book: atheists who do Not believe in God, Communists have No qualms whatsoever in disobeying God’s Ten Commandments in general, and “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” (i.e., Lie, or otherwise Deceive) in particular. Communists will, therefore, say and do Anything that will advance their agenda: See MAILBOAT on 31

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Author Dodie Stephens Honors Her Father’s Years of Service

she said. “They are very letter saying that my small with really tiny father had a special print. I needed a mag- dispensation for havnifying glass to read ing dentures because them.” you were not normally In addition to note- allowed in the service books detailing the with false teeth,” she wells drilled by her fa- explained. ther, Stephens donated Located on the first 240 letters written by floor of the Wright Muhim. She said she de- seum, Beal’s display cided to donate them features several picwhen her mother down- tures, including a photo sized and moved into a of the Sultan of Mosmaller house. rocco who “appreciated “Some letters didn’t having a well drilled” survive her move—there because there was no were probably hun- fresh water there. r N efor e S h op O uAs dreds more,” she w her thoughts o msaid. C S r t e o g onrThe “Though they are e ! Wright, she cited L a rnot all on display at the her fondness for the museum, they are all at Time Tunnel, which the museum.” takes visitors through S h e a l s o d o n a t e d each year of World War some of her father’s offi- II in conjoined rooms. cial papers, one of which “It is fantastic—it covshe found “interesting.” ers everything,” said “It was an official Stephens, who received

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES 11th Annual Harvest Festival Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center will host its 11th Annual Harvest Festival on Saturday, Sept. 11th, from 10 am to 3 pm. Fall is a traditional time to celebrate the harvest’s bounty with food and fun. The event will include an array of activities, including horse-drawn wagon rides, live traditional and Celtic music, Colonial-era Trades Faire demonstrations, nature craft activities for all ages, field games, garden tours, sing-alongs, and craft vendors. dmission is free with a nomi-

nal fee for some activities. Hungry and thirsty Harvest Festival goers can purchase lunch, snacks, and beverages right on site. Prescott Farm is happy to have Laconia Rod & Gun Club selling food and soft drinks as a fundraiser for their many charitable works. There will be a bake sale to support the Fledglings Nature-Based Preschool scholarship fund.

Hawk Watch With Renowned Ornithologist Scott Weidensaul Join Moose Mountains R e g i o n a l G r e e n way s (MMRG) on September 25th, 9am-12pm, at Birch Ridge Community Forest in New Durham, NH for a very special event with expert ornithologist and best-selling author Scott Weidensaul. Scott will lead an exciting, unique bird watching opportunity to observe the migration patterns and behaviors of hawks and other raptors. He will share his deep expertise, and his experiences from over 20 years of working with birds in the field across the globe. Migration is a phenomenon that has fascinated scientists and nature lovers alike throughout history. Late September is an ideal time to see migrating birds, which may pass by in the hundreds or even thousands. Participants might even notice other non-migrating bird species congregating nearby. Make sure to bring your binoculars and keep a sharp eye - participants will hike up to higher ground to watch for migrating hawk and raptor species as they head to warmer climates in preparation for winter. Space is limited for this event, and registration is required. Please register online at rebrand. ly/hawkwatch. The rain date for this event will be September 26th. A $15 per person donation while registering is suggested, which goes towards MMRG’s nonprofit programs and helps to defray costs. MMRG COVID-19 prevention policies are observed to make this a safe event for all. Participants should dress for the weather and bring what they need for their own comfort and enjoyment (water, snacks, bug spray, binoculars etc). This event will require moderate physical activity on uneven terrain.

Meet Local Author Derry James A book signing on Sunday the 5th of September by local inspirational author and speaker Chaplain, Reverend Dr, Derry James-Tannariello, will take place from 1-6 p.m. at Book Warehouse at Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Rd., Suite 206, Tilton.. Copies of all six of her books will be available for purchase at special event prices and hourly door prizes. No admission fee. Derry is a sought-after speaker known for her compassionate heart, humor and life- changing inspirational stories of faith and wisdom. She is an internationally recognized seminar and workshop presenter and an interdenominational guest speaker and lecturer on topics of “Spirituality and Health,“ “How to Support and Minister to the Sick and Terminally Ill,” How to Have an Effective Prayer Life,” “Personal Transformation,” “Relational God,”” and many more spiritually uplifting topics.

Tempest Trio Live In Bethlehem Begin your Labor Day Weekend enjoying an emotional performance by the Tempest Trio live in Bethlehem. Cosponsored by the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation Sounds of the Sanctuary and the Consulate General of Israel in New England, this concert begins at 5 p.m., Friday, September 3 in the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation sanctuary on Strawberry Hill Street in Bethlehem. Doors will open at 4:45 p.m. The trio features Alon Goldstein, piano, Amit Peled, cello, and Ilya Kaler, violin. Over the years, concertgoers have enjoyed the individual performances by two of the Tempest Trio’s members: Israeli-American pianist Alon Goldstein inaugurated our series in the winter of 2015, and then followed with two more solo recitals in subsequent years. Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled, performed in 2017 (accompanied by Elizabeth Borowsky) and in 2019 (accompanied by Noreen Polera). We welcome Goldstein and Peled back to BHC together with violinist Ilya Kaler as the Tempest Trio. The Trio will perform Beethoven’s Trio, op. 1; Stutschewsky’s Hasidic Fantasy; and Dvorak’s Piano Trio no. 4 in e minor, op. 90, “Dumky.” Due to Covid restrictions, we encourage everyone to book early and purchase tickets online at Catamount Arts: https://bit.ly/3mlhusy.This will help to prevent crowding at the entrance door to the sanctuary. Seating will be limited so reserve tickets early. All seats will be physically distanced for patrons’ safety, and all who attend this concert are expected to be fully vaccinated and wearing a mask for personal safety and that of others. If you are unable to purchase tickets online, please have a check or exact cash ready when you come to the concert. Tickets are $25 for the general public and $20 for members of BHC.

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Killing Time A recent study by health researchers at Michigan University looked at different foods in the average U.S. diet and measured their effects by Brendan Smith in minutes of Weirs Times Editor healthy life gained or lost. Overall, the researchers looked at 5,853 different food items and determined the time that each would either take away or add to one’s life. The research was intense and took months. Once all was said and done, the researchers came to the unanimous conclusion that they had all lost nearly a year of their lives doing research which probably won’t make a lick of difference in what most people eat anyway. If you are interested, it was determined that eating a hot dog takes thirty-six minutes off your life and that eating a piece of salmon adds fifteen. So, based on my math skills, if I have two pieces of salmon and a hot dog for dinner, I only lose five minutes, if I add in a few walnuts, I have done no damage at all. Of course, if I only eat foods that add minutes to my life, then, in theory, I should never die. I searched the internet for the complete list of all the foods, but could not find it, taking away about twenty minutes of my life. (Nothing a piece of fish and a strawberry won’t take care of.) I’d imagine that this important research, which would make for filler for an afternoon on 24/7 cable news, will be quickly forgotten when the next government-funded research project conclusions are released which also won’t do much to change the way

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people act. (“Researchers at the University of Blah Blah have recently released the results of a three-year study that showed not paying attention to studies about things that may or may not affect your lifespan could increase your life by decades.”) All in all, I think the main reason for these different research projects is to give you an inkling of hope that if you do this or don’t do that, you will live forever. (Hint: You won’t. At least not in your human form.) I do think that some folks do pay attention to these studies and might try, at least for a week or two, to apply the results in their own lives before just falling back to most of their old ways. Some might come out on the other side a little better. So, here at the Weirs Times Research Center, we (I) have just completed a vigorous two days (not including sleep, meals and some TV watching) of studies on how doing or not doing certain things may add time to your life. Of course, I have about as much solid proof about these as other researchers have about eating hot dogs or salmon, but I am hopeful it may find its way to a cable news network on a slow news day. For every angry political tirade you don’t post on social media, you will add four minutes to your life. This can add up to decades for some. (And let’s face it, the ones you do post are only liked by the same ten people anyway who are losing two minutes by doing so. By not posting you may be saving lives.) Giving a wave of acknowledgement when someone stops in traffic to let you enter can add fifteen to twenty minutes to your life, depending on whether or not you actually mean it or are just doing it since you heard it could extend your life. Not acknowledging the act can take up to fourteen months off

your life. (Don’t believe these results? Go ahead then, do what you want and don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Watching an episode of The Bachelor takes an hour off your life. (There is no other act, or food, that is known at the present time that can get that hour back.) Snapping your fingers at a waitperson in a restaurant can take as much as a year off your life. (Of course, the kitchen crew, upon hearing of this, may sprinkle in a few of the 5,853 food items that are known to take minutes off your life as well, so the total loss could be much greater.) Sanctimoniously complaining when the person near you in the store isn’t wearing a mask can take as much as three days off your life. (Doing it while wearing the same stinky, germfilled mask you’ve been wearing and carrying around with you in your purse or pocket for days will take a few more days off your life for reasons that have nothing to do with this study.) Reading this column takes two minutes off your life. (I’m assuming that someone, as usual, who doesn’t like this column will write me to say that. So, I figured I would just beat them to it and save them from writing me an email that would take a few minutes off their life.) There are other results of this study as well which I will be releasing in a research paper, full of big smart sounding words that no one will actually ever read. Well, time to decides what’s for lunch. There’s a lot riding on it. Brendan is also the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available at BrendanTSmith.com. His new book “I Really Only Did It For The Socks - Stories & Thoughts On Aging” will be released soon.

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Coward Cuomo’s Last Act of Treachery Disgraced Andrew Cuomo abandoned the New York governor’s mansion last week, leaving nearly 15,000 dead nursing home residents in his wake as a result of a catastrophic executive order forcing their facilities to take in COVID-19-infected patients. He also left behind a bevy of female underlings with a mountain of sordid sexual harassment allegations. by Michelle Malkin And, reportedly, Cuomo also ditched his Syndicated Columnist poor dog, whom two state troopers claim he tried to pawn off to any willing taker. But that’s not all. In the dark of night, safe from public scrutiny or accountability, Coward Cuomo granted clemency to one of the radical left’s most notorious anti-cop convicts -- a man whose family’s elite privilege I’ve chronicled for the past 19 years. David Gilbert is the Weather Underground domestic terrorist sentenced to 75 years-to-life in prison for his role in the infamous 1981 Brink’s robbery in Nyack, New York. Gilbert and his wife, Kathy Boudin, were leaders in the 1960s group of rich-kid agitators who bombed government buildings and corporate headquarters and aided convicted felons in jailbreaks. The married militants acted as chauffeurs for the Black Liberation Army robbers who held up a Brink’s truck at a Rockland County mall and stole more than $1.6 million. Two of the holdup victims gunned down in the botched Brink’s robbery were police officers. One was a private security guard. All three were military veterans from working-class backgrounds. As I’ve noted previously in my columns dating back to 2002, Gilbert and Boudin’s abandoned son, Chesa, is the pampered Rhodes Scholar and now pro-criminal district attorney in San Francisco who has faithfully whitewashed his biological parents’ crimes (and those of his unrepentant adoptive parents, Weather Underground poster couple Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn). Celebrating the clemency order this week, Chesa Boudin claimed that his father “never intended harm.” What a steaming crock of San Francisco street manure. Gilbert was defiant at trial and has called himself a “political prisoner” for the entirety of his 40-year imprisonment, which he has spent See MALKIN on 37

Welcome To The Forever Pandemic This week, as Presid e n t J o e B i d e n a ttempted desperately to distract from his ongoing surrender in Afghanistan and the attendant chaos in its wake, the White House turned its eyes once by Ben Shapiro again to the issue of Syndicated Columnist COVID-19. On Monday, Biden pressed private industry to mandate vaccination, stating, “Do what I did last month, require your employees to get vaccinated or face strict requirements.” Meanwhile, the ubiquitous Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “I respect people’s freedom, but when you’re talking about a public health crisis ... the time has come, enough is enough. We’ve just got to get people vaccinated.” Meanwhile, the Biden administration also pressed private sector vaccine mandates. Fauci announced on MSNBC that everyone should mask, vaccinated or unvaccinated: “Instead of worrying what kind of mask, just wear a mask. Wear a surgical mask, a cloth mask ... We need to wear masks.” Biden went further, extending his push for masks to small children: “You have the tools to keep your child safer ... make sure that your child is masked when they leave home.” Put aside the fact that the data support none of these policy prescriptions: There is little evidence that vaccine mandates will push the unvaccinated into overcoming their hesitancy; vaccine mandates are likely to press the unvaccinated into common spaces in which they are more likely to transmit the virus to other unvaccinated people, who are in far more danger than the vaccinated; the delta variant, according to former Obama advisor Dr. Michael Osterholm, makes a mockery of cloth masks; according to the University of Waterloo, surgical masks are essentially ineffective against delta; there is literally zero data demonstrating that masking

children in schools has been effective in reducing transmission of the coronavirus; and children are at exorbitantly low risk from the virus, given that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just 361 Americans under age 18 have died of COVID-19 during the entirety of the pandemic. Instead, focus on a simple fact: our pandemic is now officially endless. At the beginning of the pandemic, we were told to accept lockdown measures in order to prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed -- to flatten the curve. We did so. Then we were told to mask up to prevent transmission of the virus while we developed a vaccine. We did so. Then we were told to wait to unmask and gather in large numbers until after every adult had the opportunity to be vaccinated. We did so. Now, every adult in America -- every person over age 12 -- has had the ability to get vaccinated. Well over 75% of all Americans aged over 65 have been double-vaccinated. A majority of people in the United States have been double-vaccinated. And yet we are still told that mask mandates are necessary -- presumably to prevent those who have already had the opportunity to be vaccinated from contracting COVID-19, since the vaccinated are at extremely low risk of hospitalization and death even if a breakthrough infection occurs. How can this be justified? On simple logical grounds, it can’t. The government has now done all it can to provide protection to those who want it; those who demand government restrictions have provided no metric for success by which proposed restrictions end and we all go back to normal life. Is it deaths? Obviously not: Hawaii has an indoor mask mandate for everyone, despite a seven-day rolling average of two deaths per day and a population of 1.4 million. Is it hospitalizations? No: Australia is in a state of complete lockdown, despite a grand total of 119 people in the ICU in a country of 25 million people See SHAPIRO on 38

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Lessons From Georgia

by John Stossel

Syndicated Columnist

Georgia (the exSoviet Republic, not the U.S. state) is now a remarkable success story. Its economy is growing at 5% per year, and the country ranks ahead of the United States in economic free-

dom. Yet, 20 years ago, Georgia was even more miserably poor than the rest of the former Soviet Union. So, what can America and the rest of the world learn from Georgia’s progress?

A lot, says my executive producer Maxim Lott. He’s spent the past several months in Georgia and made a StosselTV video about it. All former Soviet states are poor because the communists had grabbed everyone’s private property and put it under government control. They thought they were smart enough to run the economy. They did things like order Georgians to produce tea. Soon, 95% of tea in the Soviet Union came from Georgia. But Georgia is not the best place to grow tea. After the Soviet Union collapsed, “People started to taste Indian tea and realized that tea is actually bet-

ter,” says Georgian politician Zurab Japaridze. “Nobody wanted Georgian tea.” That industry, and most others, vanished when Soviet support ended. “Three-fourths of the Georgian economy disappeared,” he says. Central planners are never smart enough to run something as complex as an economy. Fortunately, in Georgia, an eccentric libertarian, Kakha Bendukidze, became economy minister in 2004. He made “everything private, as much as possible.” Georgia scrapped 90% of licensing and permit requirements. That reduced corruption.

“Every license means interaction with officials. Every interaction with the official can be an open door for a corrupt request,” explains Fady Asly, chairman of Georgia’s International Chamber of Commerce. Before those reforms, “Corruption was so rampant!” says Asly. “A high-ranking official told me: ‘I have a friend who’s very honest. We would like him to chair of the anti-corruption commission, but he has to pay someone $10,000 to get this job.’ The future chair of the anti-corruption commission had to bribe someone to get the job!” Georgia has come a long way since See STOSSEL on 38

Afghanistan; Dust Settling on Disaster The dust is now settling on an unmitigated military disaster and a stinging political humiliation for the United States’ standing by John J. Metzler in the world. The Syndicated Columnist unfolding Afghan fiasco confronts Washington policymakers with complicated Rubik’s cube choices in the wake of Kabul’s collapse. The Biden Administration’s next moves will affect America’s stature before its foes and, as significantly, among it’s nervous allies from the Baltic states to the Taiwan Straits and the Korean peninsula. We are in a Saigon moment, now having recognized and begun to

process the complete collapse of an South Asian ally, proxy, or partner— whatever you wish to call it—to a likely repeat performance of the very Taliban regime we toppled twenty years ago following the September 11th attacks on America. So let’s turn to the Rubik’s cube for complicated options. Kabul Airport. U.S. and Allied forces have conducted an amazing and risky airlift of civilians from the besieged Kabul Airport. American civilians and Afghan allies who helped the U.S. security effort are being evacuated under the guns of the enemy. Yet the timetable has been set by the Taliban and perimeter security entrusted to the Taliban in a kafkaesque ending of America’s

20 year Afghan engagement. It’s little wonder that many Americans and local partners will be left behind in the mayhem. The tragic but predictable deaths of twelve U.S. Marines and a Navy Corpsman, the largest American military causalities in a decade, as well as over 100 Afghan civilians to a terrorist bomb only reinforced the folly of using a near indefensible airport since having foolishly pulled out of the strategic Bagram base. Afghanis Fight On In Panjshir Valley. Not everybody has surrendered. About 60 miles northeast of Kabul tough Tajik rebels hold firm against their historic Taliban enemy. Panjshir presents a noble resistance among Afghan fighters led by Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary “Lion

of the Panjshir,” who blocked Soviet forces in the 1980’s and later the Taliban in the 1990’s from conquering the region. Many Afghan army soldiers have fled to the free enclave. Former Vice President Amrullah Salleh now leads this resistance redoubt in the rugged mountains. They have not asked for American weapons but for international recognition as Afghanistan’s legitimate government. Afghan Women. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable and rightfully frightened of the return of Taliban Islamic fundamentalist rule. During the past twenty years, Afghan women made significant social and economic strides. In 2001, no girls were enrolled in formal See METZLER on 38

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By the year 1906 newspapers for readers in central and northern New Hampshire were being delivered on the morning train coming from Boston. The natives were apparently becoming restless, however, concerning the time it took for their mail to be delivered from the time it was mailed and felt that if the newspapers could be delivered on the morning train that their mail coming from New York and Boston should be able to arrive at the same time. According to the editorial section of the local newspaper, the Laconia Democrat, there had been no improvement in the morning mail service from New York and Boston since train deliveries had begun in the year 1848. The train company in charge then was the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad, and in 1906 was the White

Letters with 2 cent and 3 cent stamps from the 1920s. Mountain division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The newspaper called upon the general public, and especially businessmen and manufacturers, to put pressure on the railroad to provide full morning mail service from Boston to Manchester. To quote the newspaper: “Letters mailed as early as five o’clock in the afternoon in some of the big office buildings in Boston do not reach this section of New Hampshire until noon the next day, and everybody

knows it is practically impossible to receive a letter in Laconia from Boston and get an answer back there in season to be delivered the same day, an arrangement which we allow is hardly up-todate considering that Boston and Laconia are only three hours apart. And of course further north the present service is still more unsatisfactory. The early morning train would bring a mass of mail which is posted in Boston in the afternoon and evening and also five heavy

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View of Mount Hale from Wildlife Pond. On Zeland Road just across from the Sugarloaf Trailhead there is a gate blocking a snowmobile trail and a small sign that reads “Wildlife Pond.” The flat path to Wildlife Pond is just 2/10th and is a little brushy and overgrown but it well worth following all the way, across a few bog bridges, to the Wildlife Pond. From its shore there is a fine view of Middle Sugarloaf’s cliffs and across the water up to South Sugarloaf with Mt. Hale looming above it. Peak Baggers have to collect peaks even when the weather isn’t very nice or they’re feeling a little tired. Especially if their time is limited. My old college friend Sue came up from Maryland to New Hampshire to help her daughter Anna settle in for grad school at Southern New Hampshire University. They came up two days early

to hike mountains and to happily check them off the New Hampshire 4000 footer list. It was four years ago when we hiked Moosilauke and the Presidentials Range peaks together when Sue got the bug to finish the list. She bought all Steve Smith’s guide books and Sue has been wanting to get back to work on the list ever since.

They planned their hike and they started bright and early. They hiked up the Greenleaf Trail and summited Lafayette and then they traversed across the Franconia Range all the way to Mount Flume and then they backtracked to Mount Liberty to descend via the Liberty Spring Trail. Good weather accompanied them all

their long day. They enjoyed the trails and the views. They even met a few Appalachian Trail thru-hikers along the way. At suppertime I met them and we all went to the Rek-Lis Brewing Company to celebrate. We had a comfortable table out on the deck and it was wonderful to hear their account of their adventure. See PATENAUDE on 28

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Lecture & book signing by the author and seven-time Emmy-winning television producer/director Peter Lion. It’s December 1944, and knowing they would not be home for Christmas, battle-weary GIs throw a holiday party for the children of Wiltz, Luxembourg. Ten days later the town is all but Tuesday, Sept 21, from 7-8 PM destroyed during the Battle of the Bulge. Wiltz however never forgot the kindness Moving On and Hanging On: The Complex Legacy of the Vietnam of the Americans and for 30 years War for the United States searched for the GIs in hopes of bringing them back once more. Lecture by Professor Kurk Dorsey Fifty years have passed since the United Tuesday, September 14, 6:30-8 PM. States began to disentangle itself from (* Note early start time of this pgm) the war in Vietnam. Yet the war is still AN AMERICAN SOLO: meshed into American society, politics, The Story of Col. Norman Phillips and foreign policy. In this illustrated lecture, Kurk Dorsey discusses some (USAF retired) of the ways in which the Vietnam War This is a fun, fast-paced biopic about continues to influence the United Colonel Norman Phillips. No one has States years after U.S. troops finally left squeezed more out of 98 years than Phillips, and he tells his own story with Saigon in 1975. Professor Kurk Dorsey, Department Chair, has taught history at clarity, candor, and charisma. Raised the University of New Hampshire since by illiterate, immigrant grandparents, Phillips grew up to become a decorated 1994. World War II fighter pilot, mentor to

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It was an eagle. There was no doubt about that. I secondguessed myself only for a second because of where the sighting took place. It was not on a remote lake in northern New England or on one of the islands in Long Island Sound. It was right along a highway. We are all used to seeing hawks perched along the highway. In fact, when I drive to Pennsylvania a couple of times a year to visit family, I make it a point to count the number of red-tailed hawks I see perched in trees along Route 86. It is usually between 10 and 15. Hey, it passes the time on a long drive. I noticed from far away as I approached the scene that there was a bird perched in a tree overhanging a somewhat busy state highway. Even from a significant distance, I could tell it was not a hawk. The only question was whether it was an eagle or a vulture. It did not have the posture of a vulture, but rather the regal stance of an eagle. As I drove up to the bird, I could see that it was an immature bald eagle. It was probably about two years old. Bald eagles do

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certainly no ducks that the eagle could go after. Regardless of its reasons for picking that perch that morning, I was happy for it. As luck would have it, there is a small pulloff big enough for one car close to the pond. The eagle was not distracted by my truck pulling in or by the window going down. I snapped a few photos from the driver’s seat and headed back on my way to work. Not a bad way to start the day. It was probably my See BOSAK on 32

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Author And Emmy Award Winner Peter Lion Presents “American St. Nick”

WOLFEBORO - On Tuesday, September 7, the Wright Museum will welcome author and seven-time Emmy award winner Peter Lion, who will discuss his book, American St. Nick. Set in Wiltz, Luxembourg, American St. Nick is the true story of a group of GIs who created a Christmas celebration for children. In this small town, it was traditional to have a celebration on December 5, which is the eve of St. Nicholas Day. The American GIs revived this tradition by having one of their own dress up as St. Nick as they played music and handed out treats while the women and children of the town celebrated.

“Aside from the upfront story behind American St. Nick, what has always amazed me is the confluence of personnel, timing, location, circumstance and flat out luck that had to happen to make this story possible,” said Lion. “It’s truly remarkable.” The Wright Executive Director Mike Culver said he looks forward to the presentation, which is part of their 2021 Lecture Series, presented by Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney. “The American St. Nick is one of those stories that sounds as if it was created in Hollywood,” he said. “WWII American soldiers who can’t be home find a

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way to bring the true Christmas spirit to the children of a small village and in the process manage to ‘be home’ for Christmas...More than 70 years later, those soldiers are still celebrated and revered for what they did for that village.” American St. Nick lecture begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 7 followed by a book signing at the Wright Museum, 77 Center Street in Wolfeboro on the first floor of the new DuQuoin Education Center. Admission is $3 for members and $8 for non-members. Masks are optional for all fully vaccinated audience members. Reservations are strongly encouraged and can be

made by calling 603569-1212. On October 12, 2021, from 7 to 8 p.m, Peter Lion will return to speak about the documentary film made from his book, “The American St. Nick.” The film will be screened as part of the Wright’s GoodgameCanney education program, and reservations are required. The region’s leading resource for educators and learners of all ages on World War II, the Wright Museum features more than 14,000 items in its collection that are representative of both the homefront and battlefield. For more information about the 2021 Lecture Series, or museum, visit wrightmuseum.org.

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Letters From God This series of Letters From God is an attempt to put the thoughts of God as revealed in the Scriptures as they relate to individuals and the nation of the USA.

the days of Noah, the sin and the evil will grow so great and so pervasive then I will destroy it again but this time with fire (Isaiah 66:15-16). It will be the final judgment on the world and the consummation of human history. Following this, I will recreate a new heaven and earth that will endure forever (Isaiah 66:22; Revelation 21). At the heart of these events are a series of judgments on the earth. These judgments, you must understand, result from direct judgment on sin by me, from my throne, because humanity has rejected me and brazenly violated my laws and my commands. They also are an indirect result, of natural consequences of the sin of humanity, boomeranging on them and producing catastrophic effects that ultimately will hurt them. Like war, which often arises from selfish and sinful desires. It brings famine and famine brings death and death becomes pervasive. I spoke through my prophet Isaiah and said, “when your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. Though grace is shown to the wicked they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord.” (Isaiah 26:910) When sin becomes so prevalent and predominant, it is so sad that, if anyone will learn, it will be through painful consequences. Like dealing with Pharaoh in the Old Testament. The only

way he would ever let my people go and follow my will, instead of his, was if he felt the pain of the plagues. As I mentioned in my last letter, these judgments, as revealed in the book, are brought in three groups of seven judgments. Each of the groups are named. The first is a series of judgments that begin with the opening of a scroll (Chapter 5). The second are initiated with the sound of a trumpet (Chapter 8). The third are described as bowls of judgment being poured out to complete the judgements (Chapter 16). These painful judgments increase in intensity and duration. It includes salt & freshwater being polluted and killing much of aquatic life (Revelation 16:3), an earthquake that will shake the whole earth and a hailstorm with devastating destruction (Revelation 6:1214;16:15-21), the earth heating and creating unbearable conditions (Revelation 16:8-9), famine (Revelation 6:5-6), plagues more devastating than Covid (Revelation 6:7-8), the darkening of the Sun & Moon (Revelation 8:12), and even a final World War that will be initiated by a world leader who defies me and even claims to be God. He will lead a world government into the war that will end all wars. It will end because my Son, Jesus, who walked among you and died to pay for your sins, will return in the midst of that battle and establish His kingdom on earth and ultimately on a new heaven and earth (Revelation 19:11-21). Despite these and oth-

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QUESTION: What Else Does Revelation Say About Judgements In Your Book, The Bible? Thank you for asking. In my last letter I spoke of events that will culminate human history. I began this final chapter of my book, Revelation, speaking to the Churches that existed in the 1st century to remind them and to inform you of the many important events that will take place before my Son returns to the earth and restores it into its original design. This design is found in the first chapter of my book, the Bible, the book of Genesis. May I remind you that when I created humanity, the earth and everything in it, and even the universe, I created to last eternally. I warned the first man and woman, that because I am without sin, should they disobey me they will be separated from me, the source of life, and they will begin to die (Genesis 2:15-17). With their death the world and everything in it began to die. At one point, the sin and evil of the world grew so great and so pervasive that I brought it to an end, when only Noah & his family survived the flood (Genesis 6, 7, 8). Though I predicted that I would never destroy the earth with water again (Genesis 9:12-17), there will be a time in which, like

er painful judgements, most will not turn from their sins or seek me and the forgiveness I offer, so that they might be saved from temporal and eternal death. These judgements will occur. They need not happen, but even as you are rejecting me now you will harden your hearts even more in the future. If, however, you would return to me, confess your sins, receive forgiveness from my Son and obey me, you need not die. If you have ears to hear me and a heart that believes me, come back to me and I will save you from certain death and give you eternal life (Romans 6:23). I love you, God These letters are written by a New Hampshire pastor.

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‘Muggy’ is a term often used to describe how these last days of summer’s heat wave have been tolerated. With both higher temps and high humidity, thirsty folk are trending in many directions, With summer heat comes the need

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 2, 2021 — SMITH from 9 rive in Boston during the night, and would land this mail along the White Mountains division early in the morning in season for the rural mail carriers to deliver it along their routes the same day.” A somewhat related item from a 1906 issue of The White Mountain Republic-Journal reported the death of a 72 year old Civil War veteran, Proctor E. Harris. The connection to the mail was that Mr. Harris was for many years a mail carrier in Warren “between the post office and the Boston and Maine railroad station.” He had served in Company H of the First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery. Later in the 1900s as a child I took our Rural Free Delivery for granted with R.F.D. # 1, Ashland, NH, as our address even though we lived in the town of New Hampton and our mail would be delivered even if the RFD was not included in the address. Those were the days of the three-cent stamp for letters and one-cent for postcards. It seems to me that postcards were more frequently used in those days when one could write a short note and save two-cents on postage if you weren’t concerned about the mail-carrier reading your message. Some people could fit a good size message onto a card. I assume that much of the mail was transported by train in those days, but somewhere along the way air-mail made its appearance. I think that was in the 1920s. No airplane showed up in anyone’s yard, but for an extra fee one could expect that any longdistance mail would

The first Postmaster Benjamin Franklin. arrive at its destination in a more timely manner. Swift mail service in colonial America took a while to be established. The settlers didn’t arrive with a master plan that they could quickly put into operation, but long before the trains were used, mail was carried by post-riders using horses. According to an article in The Granite State Magazine, published in 1911, the first time that mail was carried south from Portsmouth, NH, in coaches was in the year 1786. A writer in those days of the early 1900s is said to have written concerning the late 1700s: “In the mountains of New Hampshire, in the hill country of Pennsylvania, in the rice swamps of Georgia and the Carolinas, letters were longer in reaching their desti-

nation than they are now in reaching Pekin, China.” At first the mail carried by coaches did not carry other merchandise or passengers and there was strong opposition to doing so, though it appears there were passenger coaches and mail wagons at other locations before the mail coaches left Portsmouth. The practice of carrying passengers on mail wagons was reportedly begun in New Jersey when room for four passengers on top of a stage coach was allowed, but it took some time for that practice to be generally accepted. Unlike the early train to New Hampshire in 1906 which was carrying six different newspapers, the early mail carriers of the 1700s delivered mail but few, if any, newspapers. Magazines and books were

added some time after newspaper delivery began. Post offices were in houses or taverns and the mail was not always handled with great care as the post rider here in the east, unlike the renown pony express riders, was apt to be an older man who wasn’t in a hurry and took time to open and read the mail as he traveled along. In 1776 there were only 28 national post offices in the country. Benjamin Franklin, as deputy postmaster general, is credited with great strides in the advancement of the postal service, including visiting Portsmouth and establishing mail routes in New Hampshire. It should be noted that post-riders and postmasters were made exempt from military service by an act of the General court in 1777. In 1798 postal rates established by Congress were six cents for single letters going 30 miles, eight cents for 60 miles, and ten cents for 100 miles. Rates were increased according to the distance involved and a periodic increase occurred over the next 30 years. In at least one of his letters as the national postmaster Franklin mentioned the name of Bartholomew Stavers whom he indicates was paid at some pe-

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mail illicitly as a sideline until the Boston postmaster hired him to make his activities legal. He had come to New Hampshire from England in 1755 and, being sympathetic to the English at the time of the Revolutionary War, returned to England, leaving his wife and baby behind, never to return. His life, like the stagecoach history and that of colonial mail service, was a complicated one which I might research further at a future date. Robert Hanaford Smith welcomes your comments at danahillsmiths@yahoo.com

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that Hoover says seriously; in fact, no one should take Hoover seriously: they should laugh at him--and, of course, his book: Masters of Deceit. That effective piece of Soviet Disinformation was exposed as the Lie that it is in: The Sword And The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, who worked for 30 years in the Top Secret Soviet KGB Archives in Moscow, and who Defected to the West with Thousands of pages of notes from those Top Secret archives (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999). Among the facts revealed by Mitrokhin: Hoover was the target of a Massive Soviet KGB Disinformation Campaign (pp. 235-236)--intended to make him Falsely appear to be a “closethomo s exual” and a “fruity transvestite” and the FBI to be a “den of faggots” [sic] (pp. 235-236). The entire purpose of this Soviet KGB Disinformation Campaign being to Smear Hoover with False allegations-in an effort to ensure See MAILBOAT on 32

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BOSAK from 13 second most surprising eagle sighting. The first one occurred about four years ago when I spotted an immature eagle perched in a snag in a swamp sandwiched between a large shopping mall and a six-lane interstate highway. Years ago, eagle sightings were rare enough that there is

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well. Inflation is the precursor to monetary chaos followed by the blame game. On a positive note the State of New Hampshire recently approved a two year budget that takes into account how the money will be appropriated and how the budget will be balanced. Senator Bradley from Wolfeboro was a major architect for the new fiscal budget which should serve as an example in Washington. If you think I am being an alarmist, take a close look at the rising cost of everything. Energy is a key element and it will cost more to simply move goods and provide services. Your wellbeing is at stake and I am convinced that New Hampshire’s two US Senators care very little about anything other than their political future. You be the judge. Kenneth Bowers Wolfeboro, NH.

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cops when they were stopped. Chesimard was convicted and sentenced to life in 1977 but escaped from prison two years later with help from violent left-wing accomplices. One of those thugs, Black Liberation Army killer Tyrone Rison, admitted to participating in a series of armored-car robberies, including a $250,000 heist in the Bronx on June 2, 1981, that left a Brink’s guard dead. Rison also confessed to taking part in the planning

of the Brink’s robbery in which Boudin said his father and mother meant “no harm.” I remind you, again, as I have for the past two decades, that police officers Waverly Brown and Edward O’Grady and Brink’s guard Peter Paige were murdered during the homicidal siege. Brown, who served in the Air Force after the Korean War, had two grown daughters and a teenage son. O’Grady, who served in the Marines and did two tours of duty in Vietnam, left

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 2, 2021 — leaning Der Spiegel newsweekly admonished in an article “Debacle in Kabul,” that the “grotesquely amateurish management also weakens a U.S. administration that promised when it took office in January to resume a stronger role on the world stage.” United Nations Mission Pullout. There was sadly no more than a slipshod plan to properly evacuate UN staff and locally hired Afghans from the country. The likely logic was that the UN was viewed as impartial and delivering humanitarian aid. While true, this nuance seems lost on the Taliban. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) could only evacuate some staff. A UN Security Council statement (not a formal resolution) “Condemned in the strongest terms the deplorable attacks” near the International Airport in

Kabul where thirteen American troops and at least 100 Afghan civilians were killed by a ISIS-K suicide bomb. A devastating slap on the wrist to the emboldened terrorists! “The Bells Toll for us in Kabul,” wrote noted French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy in London’s Spectator magazine; who says that in Washington there is the “shameful spectacle of the commander in chief of what had been the world’s greatest power coming back from vacation to tick off on television… the brilliant achievements of his botched and pathetic evacuation operation.” John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.September 2021

SHAPIRO from 6 and with baseline ICU bed capacity of at least 2,378. Is it infections? We have no standard by which infectivity level is low enough to go back to normal: Schoolkids are being told to mask despite no evidence that children are at serious risk or are a main vector of transmission. Which means that zero COVID-19 has become the goal. And that’s not a goal, that’s a pipe dream.

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This created a “huge boom,” says Asly. “Georgia turned from a failed state to a very successful state.” Its economy grew 10% a year. Buildings that had been burned were restored. McDonald’s and KFC arrived. Some prosperity came to Georgia. “This was kind of a libertarian utopia for four years,” says Iva Nachkebia, national coordinator for Georgia’s branch of Students for Liberty. But then the politicians decided that since things were going well, they would get in on the action. Instead of leaving markets free, they gave privileges to cronies. “They chose 10, 15, 20 businessmen who were close to the government,” says Asly. “And they started protecting them at the expense of their competitors.” Since the protected businesses got big tax breaks, businessmen like Asly couldn’t compete. “After losing a couple of million dollars,” says Asly, “I decided to stop the business.” Economic growth slowed. Now the economy grows at half the rate it once grew. Japaridze thinks

Georgia re-embraced big government because “people did not actually understand” why Georgia’s economy improved. Years of Soviet propaganda kept people from learning about markets. He says that mentality must change for Georgia to develop. Either “you want to take responsibility about your life, or you are fine with being a slave and having some kind of a master who will provide you with your needs.” He’s right, but I question whether “years of Soviet rule” are what made the difference. There’s plenty of hostility toward free markets among privileged Americans who’ve never heard Soviet propaganda. The overall lesson from Georgia, says Asly: “Government should be very small. It should just regulate the minimum.”

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