I met my husband while he was stationed in Germany. We married later and moved into an apartment in Mainz, Germany.
His brigade was called up for Desert Shield/Storm. While he and Col. Graney were on their mission in support of this deployment, it became my responsibility to help support the military community and hold down the home front. This action not only helped the military community, it helped the United States.
Ray Arvish's failed argument (letter, July 22) places the blame on stateside and foreign imports for restricting or stopping access to private land for hunting, fishing and trapping. He fails to take into account that the land in question was sold to stateside imports by local citizens of Montana. The landowners were not unfairly pressured into selling this land but did so freely.
These current stateside landowners pay their taxes for this land and should be entitled to do with it as they may within the law. I don't always agree with what they do, but it's their right.
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Excluding the Native Americans, we are all imports! If anyone should be angry with the imports it should be the Native Americans. As with most things, diversity is strength. America was built on the backs of imports.
I am sure you realize by now I am not from Montana, nor the United States. I am Swiss and proud of my nationality. I work in Missoula daily. I pay and do all that the local, state and federal government ask of me. I have supported my husband and his country while he was serving in the military. We are still supporting the military indirectly as I write this.
You have no one to blame but your "native Montanans," as you call them (not Native Americans), for selling their land to imports.
Lorenza Cooke, Stevensville