Question & Answer
Your Mar/Apr issue carried an article that was a tremendous blessing—‘‘The Post Investigates Celiac Disease.” A heartfelt thank you for helping me to better understand what is happening to my body.
Betty Hickox
Syracuse, New York
Letters
How Can We Fix Our Broken Schools? —An Historical Perspective
Who's responsible when a child fails? Looking at the education system today, it's critical to understand the central role parents were once expected to play in a child's learning process.
Tour of Duty
I enjoyed your article “Honoring Our Heroes.” However, I was quite surprised to read that the average tour of duty during WWII was “only 45 days.” I believe Laura Ymker needs to do more research. Don W. Marek West Des Moines, Iowa Editor’s note: In “Honoring Our Heroes” from the May/June 2010 issue, Laura Ymker, [...]
A “Cut” Above
I just finished “Cutaway” by Jennifer Haigh and am taken by this extremely thought-provoking piece of fiction. I’m a new subscriber and in awe of the top-notch writers you attract. Peggy McGuire Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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I’m really glad I subscribed last year. I am a seventy-year-old not-yet retired life insurance man, who remembers his dad reading the weekly Saturday Evening Post in the 1940′s.
I remember always getting huge laughs out of reading “Heinrich Schnibel’s Worterbuch.” I can still quote the funny definitions. I think these humorous looks at the German language may well be A factor in my having minored in German in college.
Could you re-run some of these old Schnibel things?
Thank you for the art legacy “Wyeth Family Genius” published in the Jul./Aug edition. I enjoyed Mr. Beem”s portrayl of the personalities and how the art world views the Wyeths. In essence, that is their very gift, i.e. art so breathtaking it cannot be reduced to simply canvas or illustration. I hold dear Andrew Wyeth”s “Ides of March” which is in my home. I always feel uplifted with a shared connection even while I clean the glass!