Since moving to West Windsor three years ago, I have had the pleasure of reading Mr. Pete Weale’s habitual letters to the WW-P news. Reflecting upon Mr. Weale’s recent letter (WW&P News, Dec. 5, 2014) I would like to begin by commenting that I once wrote a letter to every member of the Burlington County Democrat Committee, portions of which, to my regret, subsequently appeared in a news article in the South Jersey section of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Although every point I made in the letter was true, I signed my own political death warrant; I learned too late that it is not what you say, but how you say it, that matters.
West Windsor is a diverse community comprising a large immigrant population, and of the natural born American citizens, I wonder how many were born and raised in the township before 1970. Ours is a community where people knowingly and willingly purchase homes without sidewalks and later demand that the other taxpaying residents bear the cost for the installation of walks for them, where people move to the country to get away from the city and then want to turn the country into the city, and where college professors do not understand the difference between partisan and non-partisan elections and do not have the intelligence to read a simple election ballot. These are a different breed of people, and I think it is fair to say that today’s population does not necessarily recognize or identify with Mr. Weale’s agenda. I say agenda because after three years of reading Mr. Weale’s missives I discern there may be such and I wonder if Thomas Grover has inadvertently become a tool in the advance of the agenda.
I respect Thomas Grover’s sacrifice and all 58,000 who died in support of the Vietnam War. However, I do not believe that Mr. Weale’s argument should be with the mayor or council, but with the government of the United States of America that sent Thomas Grover to Vietnam to prop up a crooked, corrupt, foreign government that had not the slightest intention of ever holding democratic national elections nor allowing freedom of speech, assembly, religion, etc., all of the things America was supposed to represent; the same government of the United States of America that now trades with the evil, godless, communist fiends Mr. Grover was sent off to fight. Blame the farmers and town fathers of West Windsor who sold out the township in the name of progress but really for ratables. Mr. Weale, the country you and I grew up in is gone. I have come to terms with it. It is time to give it a rest and let Thomas Grover to his. As long as you and all the fine people who knew and loved him remember him, he will still live on and not have in died in vain after all.
#b#David B. Absalom#/b#
