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Thanks for Everyday Heroes

Sat., June 28, 2014

Thank you, Spokesman-Review, for the wonderful 36-page section on Everyday Heroes you printed on June 15, Father’s Day. That is the kind of reporting that uplifts everyone and encourages us all to live in higher, better and more loving ways; certainly what we would like to exemplify in our society.

Suggestion: If you had filled the front page entirely with other good news or a start on the Heroes, instead of making me search through all the other sections to find it, and had you put the 20-year-old Fairchild Air Force Base tragedy off the front page (the headline of which was quite unsettling for Father’s Day breakfast), you would have totally made my day.

All in all, I appreciate what you do. Keep up the good work.

Rich Broderhausen

Spokane

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