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Elderly Serbian civilian. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
Regarding "The UN's War on Firearms" by William Norman Grigg in your February 11th issue, I was deeply saddened to see the photo of the elderly Serbian civilian being led from his home by U.S. peacekeepers (page 18). While U.S. citizens still enjoy their Second Amendment rights, how long will it be before these same U.S. peacekeepers, or even worse, UN peacekeepers, lead one of us from our homes for trying to defend it?
What saddened me even further is that the elderly Serbian civilian and his family could very well have been instrumental in saving the lives of over 500 American airmen who were shot down over Yugoslavia during World War II and rescued by the forces of Draza Mihailovich, as excellently reported in THE NEW AMERICAN by Fr. James Thornton ("Martyr for His People," August 2, 1999). It is not even a matter of how "quickly we forget," but more a matter of never having recognized the sacrifices made by the Serbian people in the first place.
F-16 pilots were briefed before every mission over Yugoslavia in 1999 (just as they were briefed before every mission in World War II) to escape and evade capture by the Serbs because, they were told, terrible, unspeakable things would happen to them. The late Major ...
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