'I Am a Veteran'
      To the Editor: I am a veteran. I am white, black, brown, and red. I am from the country, I am from the city. I am from up North, down South, back East, and out West. I am usually from the working class, sometimes poor, but rarely rich.
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Our Greatest Resource Is Fresh Water
      To the Editor: It seems that, maybe as a result of some recent reports from the Canadians (the Georgian Bay Association, among others), Michiganders are becoming more cognizant and rightfully concerned about the dramatically receded water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
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Lawmaker: 'Our Water Is at Risk'
      To the Editor: In October, presidential candidate Bill Richardson caused a stir when he told the Las Vegas Sun during a campaign stop in Nevada that he wanted a national water policy allowing water-rich northern states like Michigan to send our most precious resource to thirsty states out west.
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Fur Trade Era Should Not Be Celebrated by Native Americans
      To the Editor: When is it acceptable for responsible Native Americans to celebrate a past culture that history has shown to have supported and facilitated wanton and systematic destruction of the natural environment - Mother Earth - on time and space scales never experienced before, or since?
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Clarifying Points for Friends of the Les Cheneaux Library
      To the Editor: On behalf of Friends of Les Cheneaux Community Library, I would like to clarify a few points in the October 25 paper concerning the Hitchens Family Foundation's generous donation of property. First, the endowment fund referred to in the story is the Les Cheneaux Community Foundatio...
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