One-liners

I'd appreciate being told, once more, why, as an American citizen, I can travel freely to Communist China but am unable to travel to Communist Cuba without special license from my own government.

Wasteful washes

Re the Nov. 17 editorial Stop the waste: What about another wasteful use of water in our community -- fundraising car washes? While I realize that nonprofit organizations can legally do this, these car washes are as much of a waste of water as too frequent lawn watering.

Trip to Tenerife resulted in a big payoff

Re the Nov. 17 article Trips off course?: I would like to spotlight some of the positive outcomes resulting from my travel to Tenerife, Spain. This initiative has generated an estimated $7 million impact on our community, with more to come.

The saddest day

The saddest day

It is hard to believe that it has been 46 years since John F. Kennedy died. On Nov. 22, 1963 I was in fifth grade at Van E. Blanton Elementary School in Miami. We were making Thanksgiving turkeys in art class. At 3 p.m., school let out. All the students were talking about what to do on the weekend. Suddenly, a boy with a radio shouted, ``President Kennedy just died! He got shot!'' Teachers and students froze. A teacher exclaimed, ``All of you boys and girls go straight home. This is a national tragedy!''

No apology necessary

I am grateful that during President Obama's recent trip to Japan he refrained from apologizing to the Japanese people for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.