Letters

To the editor:

My granddaughters and I were at Sunset Beach on Friday, July 18. Coming out of the ocean we saw our belongings neatly stacked on our chairs away from the approaching tide. Thank you so much to the unknown Good Samaritans for saving our things.

Rita McLean

Sunset Beach

To the editor:

Thank you for providing me a public forum to express my disappointment in our Brunswick County school board. I met Edward Pruden when he was here to interview for our county’s school superintendent position. That interview coincided with the death of his first cousin’s husband, a member of the church I serve in Shallotte. Being the son of a prominent Baptist pastor, Ed did the right thing and stayed to attend the funeral and support his extended family.

To the editor:

Was Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, a coward or a traitor? Maybe any or all, but for sure, he was AWOL in a war zone. A washout for the good of the service after just four weeks in Coast Guard basic training in 2004, why was he in a war zone two years later? He is a poster child for the mistake of ending the draft after Vietnam.

To the editor:

North Carolina needs Common Core state standards because a significant number of high school graduates require remediation in their high-priced post-secondary work. Despite a high U.S. unemployment rate, technology companies in Silicon Valley are desperately trying to obtain work visas for foreigners to fill highly skilled jobs. Although implementation of the Common Core standards would address these problems, the political leaders in Raleigh have used several myths to reject the standards.