Chronline Comments
User Name: MLewis
I arrived in Vietnam on Jan. 20, 1968. I should have known that we were in trouble when we were diverted from Tan Son Nhut to Bien Hoa because of intense fighting. Two days later I was at the Long Thanh airfield, near fire base Bearcat. You may have overflown us, or even landed there while I was there. I was brand new in my job, leading a patrol along the north side of the airfield when the ammo dump at Long Binh, about 20 kilometers away, blew up, and I had barely learned the topography! We were all very happy to see gunships overhead! (might have been you!)
• Story: Great Wolf Lodge Responds to Bed Bug Claims
User Name: Jackkoa
My family visited at the end of March, my 5-year-old had several bites. I contacted management and they absolutely bent over backward for us. They even sent a K-9 to our house to make sure we were in the clear. Initially I was very upset. I did get a call back the next day. I will say that they took ownership and resolved the issue. And this was not about money or a free stay, it was about doing the right thing and they did. This can happen anywhere. Do a quick inspection and make sure you check the beds wherever you stay.
• Jami Lund Column: Washington Schools Should Teach Financial Literacy
User Name: SixToeCalico
Glad to hear someone finally realizes the benefit of a financial literacy class. However, if Mr. Lund had done a little more homework he would have discovered that such courses have been taught for years. Usually they were offered as a low level math, business or family/consumer ed classes. They were seen by most as a class for those who were not “college bound” students. Eventually, many fell from the curriculum because of student demand driven scheduling. Students did not see a need or desire to take a class so boring as to learn how to live within one’s means, when society was so into immediate gratification of buying it now and on payment plans. If Mr. Lund would look into the local schools he would find teachers trained in and with access to successful curriculums to teach what he desires. The issue is to make room in already chalked full schedule for another requirement. And, it would need to be a requirement. Because, as history has shown, real life is not bright and shiny enough to attract large numbers of students as an elective. Check out Napavine High School. It is the only school I know that requires such a class for graduation.
