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| To the editor: | This week someone tore the US flag and its mounting from my home on | Gill Street. What is distressing is not that an over-indulged, | under-disciplined hooligan stole something that I earned in | Afghanistan and hold very dear---petty property crimes committed by | students and their guests in my West College neighborhood are | common---but the thought that the young man proceeded to wave it | thru Town and Gown in protest of Joe Paterno's firing. Coach is a | great man who has contributed much to Dear Old State, especially | mentoring future leaders. [But JoePa is only a man and not a god.] His final act of service as a Penn State | employee was to accept his share of responsibility for the shame on | our Happy Valley community: the enabling of an apparent serial child | rapist. I hope that all Penn Staters internalize Coach's final | lesson: shocked, scared, inebriated, [joyous, angry,] conflicted by ties of love, | friendship or shared history, we are always accountable for our | actions. | John Groenveld, class of 1997 | 814-863-9896
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