Letter to the Editor: Desperate for entertainment

To the Editor:

How desperate can Waukon be for entertainment and pleasure when it must reenact the worst carnage of war ever fought in North America - the Civil War? The Civil War accounted for at least 529,332 military deaths plus thousands of civilians. Don’t you know war is hell on earth!

War is not pretty ladies dressed in fancy costumes and soldiers clad in clean, pressed uniforms. War is mutilated bodies of young men, husbands and fathers, injured or dying in a muddy field of battle while weeping widows, mothers, fathers and children struggle to understand.

Why don’t you show the realities of war? It is not entertainment and games. War is not the answer and never will be.

Respectfully submitted,

Peter W. Bieber
Waukon