United We Stand After the Attacks

What’s with the subtle Tiger Woods bashing on his decision not to play in the Ryder Cup?

These people have been watching the news the past week and a half, right?

Why don’t those readers ask the Mets and Yankees if they should’ve played baseball a couple weeks ago. That should tell them something.

If an ordinary, unknown civilian is nervous about making a short, simple hop flying from John Wayne Airport to San Diego, what do you think is going through the minds of prominent world-famous golfers flying from America to overseas locales?

Wake up and smell the Starbucks, guys. The world has gotten a bit scarier. I wouldn’t worry about the Ryder Cup, though. I’m sure we can all wait until next year. Like the old adage goes, better safe than sorry.

Mark Featherstone

Windsor Hills

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A sure-fire way to ruin a beautiful Saturday morning is to turn to Viewpoint and read people bash other people. It is so negative and depressing that I refuse to read it any longer.

Viewpoint is loaded week after week with people criticizing, arguing and crying over the most irrelevant subjects. People call other people “jerks,” [people] who they themselves have never met. One harsh letter is followed by another while the heartwarming and encouraging are almost lost.

If Viewpoint is simply a forum for people to vent, please tell me one person it has helped.

Please turn Viewpoint into the positive that this country is yearning to become.

Bob Cox

Mission Viejo

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Maybe I shouldn’t be writing this. It is a time for us to unite, and picking on one dimwitted ballplayer seems divisive and trivial.

But I’m sickened to read that $252-million man Alex Rodriguez was refreshed by his week off from baseball in the wake of terrorist attacks. What a lucky guy! I still feel like I’ve been punched in the stomach. Our country is going to war of some kind and I’m sad, mad and scared. But A-Rod says, “I feel like it recharged my batteries.”

Rodriguez should donate his salary to the victims and enlist like Ted Williams or some of our other lower-paid heroes with real American values would have done. A-Rod doesn’t live in the United States. He lives in Fantasyland. I hope baseball wakes up and stops paying these outrageous salaries.

John Zorn

Los Angeles