Letter to the editor: Tale of two termites

Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, there was a pair of termites looking longingly at the most majestic tree in the forest.

They decided to wait for a big storm to take it down.

The storm came, but the beautiful tree refused to fall.

So the termites decided to take it down from within. They burrowed in, called all their friends and relatives, and it took but two generations of termites to cause the fall of that once great tree that had stood tall and proud for 250 years.

Tom Hicker

Vader