EMS Week
TO THE EDITOR:
May 19-25 is National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week, an observance designed to recognize and celebrate the enormous contributions EMS professionals make to our community.
EMS answers the call day or night, in all kinds of weather and in all kinds of conditions-many of which can be dangerous and emotionally challenging. It's easy to forget how difficult this work can be, but our Dispatchers, First Responders, Firefighters, EMTs and Paramedics deliver, without fail, day in and day out.
Our Emergency Medical Services system consists of a variety of professionals, all dedicated to answering the call and making a difference in their patients' lives. Members of emergency medical services teams-whether career or volunteer, public or private -engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their lifesaving skills. They also give back to their communities far more than they take.
As a hospital president, I fully understand the significance and importance of our EMS First Responders in keeping our community safe and healthy. They are our partner in a system of coordinated response and emergency medical care to stand ready every day for every kind of emergency. Please join with me in thanking our EMS teams for the exceptional work they do!
Thomas Gilbert
President
Wadley Regional
Medical Center
Wadley Regional
Medical Center at Hope
Investigations
TO THE EDITOR:
Today's opinion highlights exactly why this nation has most all the problems we are facing. You advocate the political intelligence and law enforcement officials be allowed to commit crimes without being held responsible.
What about the hundreds of U.S. citizens unmasked and smeared while being monitored by intelligence agencies. What about innocent citizens being maliciously prosecuted and bankrupted? What about the officials that released transcripts of confidential conversations between the president and foreign leaders. Do you even consider how difficult that made the president's job of conducting our foreign policy? How about how government business was conducted on private severs that were hacked of top secret information? Do you even consider how that allows our security and public trust to be violated by having no public record?
You must think uncovering all this would be too unpleasant. That used to be your job as journalists. You must feel enforcement of the law is not important. You must be ignorant of history not to know what happens when government officials feel above the restraint of law.
You have betrayed your role to be a watchdog on government. You are now a useless, dangerous lapdog.
Charles Riley
Atlanta, Texas
TO THE EDITOR:
Jeers to the Gazette for not thinking Trumps decade 1985-1994 business losses of $1.17 billion, and not paying taxes for 8 of those years-plus the fact he had 2 years of millions in losses when he released his book Art of the Deal in 1987 not news worthy enough to be in Gazette the 9th.
And Jeers to Our View 5-8-19 "Case Closed". We have waited 2 years for the Investigation into the Russian involvement in our 2016 election to be finished and released for all Americans to read. The investigation led to 199 criminal charges (12 Russians), 37 indictments, and arrest of 5 Trump officials.
Our House Intel. Committee has not been able to get an unredacted copy of the report to see all the evidence. All of us should get a copy of what has been released and read it. Our democracy is being threatened.
Joyce Browning
Texarkana, Ark.