Correspondence
Correspondence NASHVILLE NOTE I JUST FINISHED "Bill Prist's New South" by David Brooks (Jan. 27). Well done! I grew up in Belle Meade a few years ahead of Bill Frist, went to Peabody Demonstration...
...JAMES JOHNSON Plattsburgh, NY HEATHER MAC DONALD is correct when she demonstrates that most of what was said about the Total Information Awareness program in the media is overblown hype...
...Readers may consult www.afterabortion.org for details...
...Howard Baker's East Tennessee twang is very different from what you'll hear in Memphis...
...They have no organizational conception of respecting the constitutional rights of U.S...
...citizens...
...I agree TIA is a good idea...
...As long as the Bush administration commits such public relations disasters as the appointments of John Poindexter and Henry Kissinger to inappropriate positions, it will continue to undermine its credibility...
...military policy on gays...
...If politicians are crafty enough to grab power, why then do they so often go after their own feet with a shotgun...
...I grew up in Belle Meade a few years ahead of Bill Frist, went to Peabody Demonstration School (one of the big three along with Battle Ground Academy and Frist's Montgomery Bell Academy), and then Vanderbilt...
...A very different picture emerges in the new Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, by Theresa Burke with David Reardon...
...27) in support of the proposed Total Information Awareness program seems persuasive enough, but she glosses too breezily over what has so correctly inflamed the suspicion of the media and general public...
...JON ZIMMER Fairborn, OH ROE 30 YEARS LATER THANK YOU FOR David Tell's review of four recent books about abortion ("Planned Un-Parenthood," Jan...
...If TIA was a project of the Justice Department or Homeland Security, fine...
...And my relatively plain Midwestern is typical of Nashvillians born since WWII...
...He notes that in Gloria Feldt's Behind ^¦very Choice Is a Story, "almost without fail, her correspondents make impressive, valiant efforts to express convincing pride in their decisions to abort...
...On our weekends, we have the privilege of witnessing the action of transforming grace in the hearts of brave and honest men and women who no longer feel any uncertainty about what happened in their abortion(s...
...The mere appearance of impropriety disqualifies...
...DoD plays with a looser set of rules (e.g...
...WILLIAM JOHN JOSEPH HOGE Westminster, MD TWEAKING TIA HEATHER MAC DONALD'S "Total Misrepresentation" (Jan...
...I'm a volunteer counselor with Rachel's Vineyard...
...I speak with a general Midwestern-type accent...
...an undercurrent of profound uncertainty bubbles to the surface...
...A great place and a great article...
...Under the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, DoD has absolutely no domestic law enforcement function except in very limited and special circumstances (e.g., the National Guard...
...Here's a point he missed about the diversity of Tennessee...
...Theirs is the nearly unknown story of 30 years in the culture of death...
...clinton did something similarly inane when his very first chore as president was an in-your-face attempt to reform U.S...
...These stories are the result of Burke's direct clinical experience with the center for Post-Abortion Healing, which she opened in Philadelphia in 1986, and with Rachel's Vineyard (www.rachelsvineyard.org), a weekend retreat program for healing after abortion...
...These departments and their sub-organizations are trained to operate within constitutional and legal boundaries...
...My father was a lawyer, and my mother was involved in local charities, including the Swan Ball...
...But unless this watchdog has a strong legal leash and an experienced handler (DoJ or Homeland Security), I don't think congress could, or should, let it out...
...But one question about it still bugs me: Why in the world is the Defense Department doing the development work...
...Tell notes that in Feldt's book, as her correspondents speak proudly of their abortions, "few among them manage to pull it off completely...
...In Forbidden Grief, Burke shares stories about women who feel shamed, guilty, abandoned, traumatized, and wounded by their abortions...
...And I tell people, "This is the way Nashvillians speak...
...LESLIE GRAVES Madison, WI...
...Brooks's article captures what it was like to grow up in that environment...
...they are not supposed to...
...the military justice system, fewer constraints on interrogations and imprisonments, and even allowing summary executions in extreme cases...
...Apart from anecdotal evidence, in the last 18 months, statisticians have published five studies—in the British Medical Journal, the Southern Medical Journal, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry—that show a strong correlation between abortion and later distress, including heightened rates of suicide, psychiatric hospitalizations, mental health treatment, parenting difficulties, and substance abuse...
...When I tell folks where I'm from they ask, "Where's your accent...
...The Mercedes has been the vehicle of choice in West Nashville since the mid-60s...
...I would pick very few nits...
...But I found one truly outrageous error: West Nashvillians don't support Cadillac dealers...
Vol. 8 • February 2003 • No. 21
