Gas Mask Would Come In Handy During Grass Burning Letter Of The Week From Sept. 6

I am sitting at my table in the kitchen looking out the window at the smoke. The grass farmers are making sure that I don’t go outside. For the first time in my life, I am writing a letter to a newspaper to tell them my thoughts.

I was always taught that if you did something wrong or you hurt someone, you would be punished. These people can smoke up our yard so bad that I can’t go outdoors and it is legal. They have zoning laws that you can’t build a slaughterhouse or a foundry next to a hospital, yet no one can stop them from burning.

I often go to the veterans hospital in Spokane. If today was my time to go, it would be impossible. During the war, I was in the South Pacific in 1943-44. I was issued a gas mask that I carried around and never had to use. I wish that I had kept it - maybe I could use it to go outdoors. xxxx