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Northwood NH News

July 2, 2014

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George Pease Jr. passed away in December, 2013.  He had lived in Limestone, Maine for the past several years.   He had family and friends in and around the Northwood area.

 

Because his funeral and burial were in upstate Maine, not many of those family and friends were able to attend his services. Therefore, on July 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. an informal memorial will be held at the home of his brother, Charles Pease, at 110 Bow Street in Northwood. 

 

Any friends or acquaintances of George, who would like to attend and share their memories, are most welcome.   We will be having a cookout after the memorial for those wishing to stay.

 


 

The Chesley Memorial Library will be hosting a Senior Summer Café every Monday from July 14 through August 25, 1:00-2:30 p.m.  The central air is on so it’s a perfect place to cool down while meeting up with friends!  There is no specific program planned for each week; we might talk about books, make decorations for the library, play Trivial Pursuit, or we might just visit and enjoy each other’s company.  Light refreshments will be served.  Caretakers are welcome to stay with seniors for the café but can also enjoy some time away on their own if appropriate.  Please call the library at 942-5472 if you would like more information.

 


 

The Veterans Corner Richard Doucet

 

August 7, 1945: A day that will live in Infamy…for some Americans 

 

No I am not confused as to the date that Japan launched an unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor which not only killed soldiers and sailors but hundreds of innocent civilians as well.  I am referring to the “new” day of infamy, as seen by a small but vocal band of American history revisionists; the day we dropped the first nuclear device (atom bomb) on a military target in Japan.  These self-loathing people, who see America as a bully nation with no regard for life, will gather, some in secret, to spit in the face of all those who died at the hands of Imperial Japan; military, civilian, American, Chinese, Korean, Indian, all of our allies.  They will apologize to Japan for our “barbarous act” and pay homage to the Japanese dead. 

 

During this ceremony no mention will be made of Japanese aggression that started in the early 1900’s with the invasion of Korea to be followed by China, Mongolia and a blood soaked march south and west along the Pacific rim and east into the Pacific.  Nothing will be mentioned of the Bataan Death March, hundreds of thousands of individual atrocities committed against prisoners of war and civilians alike.  Atrocities like the “Rape of Nanking” (China).  In that city alone an estimated 300,000 civilians; men women and children, even infants, were killed not as of a result of collateral damage in taking the city, but as a result of an intentional Japanese policy to have the average soldier kill people at random to harden them to the blood letting of war.

 

Even in the face of hard and overwhelming evidence of Japanese inhuman behavior these revisionist, most of whom were not alive when it happened and only know what other revisionist have told them, have decided that we were an evil nation. That we should not have punished Japan for its starting of the war with its inhuman policies.  

 

In a sense they are right, but only by accident and certainly not by intent.  We should not have and did not “punish” anyone in retribution. We are not a nation that, as a matter of national policy, punishes the defeated with the same kind of inhuman behavior that they had visited upon us.  Certainly we have occupied them but only to insure that civil society could regain a foothold in a secure environment.

 

The reason that the “bomb” was used was to end the war, and the killing, as soon as possible to save as many lives, ours and theirs, as we could.  This is where we as veterans and students of history have to step in to debunk the revisionist fantasy to America’s youth that we acted out of racist hatred and revenge.

 

The following is extracted from Episode #24 of the series “World at War, 1945”

 

The Nationalistic Party of Japan vows: “…to fight to the bitter end rather than surrender.”

 

Emperor Hirohito says: “The Unites States has created a cruel new weapon that could mean the destruction of Japan and the end of all civilization…Japan must endure the unendurable and surrender…”.  (Note their belief that the end of Japan is the end of all civilization.) One Japanese commentator expresses: “… Americans are not civilized.”

 

Mr. Kito, former Privy Seal to the emperor in 1945, notes: “…without the doping of the (atom) bombs the military (Nationalistic Party)  would probably never have accepted the concept of surrender, looking instead for complete extermination of the Japanese people in glorious combat“.

 

The fact is that it was clear to US military planners, as evidenced by the very low numbers of Japanese military who ever surrendered in the Pacific campaigns, unless Japan was presented with such devastation that they as a race might be destroyed they would not quit. There are several factors to support this point of view.

 

In May of 1945 when Germany saw that there was no hope of ever regaining any military initiative they surrendered.  Though some fighting formations were dedicated to Hitler personally and pledged to fight to their own extermination, few in the civilian population  worshiped Hitler as god and even some who did, in the end, tried to leave like rats off a sinking ship. There was no national death culture in Germany.

 

In Japan the emperor was god on earth.  The entire population, not just the military, was duty bound to die for him.  Surrender was so repugnant to the entire population that suicidal attacks was the only honorable alternative. 

 

As US military planners looked at the invasion of Japan they knew several things. 1) That Japanese military forces would fight to the last man. 2) That Japan had hundreds of thousands of troops in Japan proper and one million more in countries they still occupied. 3) Every person in Japan was being trained to resist an invasion, with bamboo spears if they had to,…this included women and grade school children.

 

Every inch of Japan would have to be contested; every city, village, port, and hamlet reduced to ashes.  An estimated 250,000 US dead were expected.  And then there would be the Japanese losses. Perhaps millions of women and children, shelled, bombed or cut down by machine gun fire as they made hopeless charges with spears against US infantry so that they could die for the emperor.  Aside from the tragic loss of young lives, how would this play around the world when seen on newsreels of the time? It was also feared, by some military leaders, that the war could degenerate into a guerilla war that could last for years (Vietnam?).  And why not? The brave Philippine people fought the Japanese that way for the whole of their occupation costing the Japanese thousands more soldiers.

 

Then there was the question of troops still in occupied countries.  The commanders in each one of these zones, even if Japan were reduced to rubble and the homeland population all but annihilated, could establish themselves as local warlords.  Each in turn would have to be taken down at the cost of more US and Japanese  lives.

The use of the two bombs assured the fast and unconditional surrender of Japan even if it did so at the cost of  about one hundred thousand Japanese lives. (Note that Japan sacrificed 140,000 Japanese military and civilians lives in the futile attempt to defend Okinawa.) Once the emperor ordered the surrender we were assured that, with the exception of the rare isolated unit that did not get the order to surrender, millions of military and civilian Japanese would lay down their arms saving not only American lives but their own as well.  

 

This is the reason why the use of the two bombs was the right and moral choice.  

 

Even today the Japanese, as a society, refuse to acknowledge that they tried to become an industrial world power by robbing their neighbors of their natural resources, and, in the process, committing the most horrendous atrocities in recorded history.  We can not let our younger generations be taught  that we ended a war with an inhumane weapon designed to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible. And, as a result that we need to apologize to the culture that caused their own demise.  It was not a callous act of inhumanity but the logical choice to end a war that could  have dragged on for years longer at the cost of millions more lives and the possible end of a culture.

 

To paraphrase Mr. Charles Krauthammer:  We cannot hold a whole culture as guilty for the acts of some but we can, and must, hold them responsible as a culture for the acts committed by their leaders in their name. 

 

Our youth has to understand that we did not commit an act of inhumanity.  We chose to end an inhumane war, which we did not start, in the most humane way we that could given the conditions that we faced at the time .  Some people may, for their own reasons, forgive Japan but America as culture bears no shame and should not apologize…ever… for that choice. 

 


 

Letter To The Editor

 

There have been some very important details that have come to my attention since my response to the letter by Lucy Edwards of June 11, 2014.

 

My wife has her principle health insurance through BC&BS.  The new required policy, as a result of Obama care, has increased the cost by $2556.00 a year!  One of the questions we had in deciding on what to do was related to coverage if we went to Florida for several months during the winter.  The agent’s response was a VERY BIG SURPRISE!!!  BC&BS coverage applies to individual states only, thus she is only covered in N.H.  Any health care other than emergency service will be at your expense as you are not covered outside of N.H.  I ask the agent if this was true under the old policy (before Obama care) and they responded NO, THIS ONLY WENT INTO EFFECT WITH OBAMA CARE!!!!  So, what are the options?  We can declare residency in Florida and take out a BC&BS policy in Florida and cancel the policy in N.H. and when we return to N.H. declare residency in N.H. and cancel the policy in N.H.  Would you want to go through all these changes to go on vacation?

 

The only other option is to obtain a policy through another carrier that provides coverage throughout the states at an increased cost of $4,100.00 over the old BC&BS policy! This increase in cost only gets me back to the level of coverage I had before Obama care!  Did Senator Shaheen understand this when she signed Obama Care into law?  If not, she should not be reelected!!  If she did understand this was going to happen, again, she should not be reelected!!  I ask you Ms. Edwards, whose “senior safety net” is Senator Shaheen and the New Hampshire Alliance for Retired Americans looking out for in this regard??

 

Do you think that we need Senators that will be watching out for the people of N.H.?  If so, get out and vote!!

 

Douglas Pollock

Northwood

 


 

Thank You

 

The Somersworth / Coe-Brown Bearcats Hockey Boosters wish to extend a heartfelt thank you to the communities of Somersworth and Northwood for supporting their recent car washes. 

 

On Saturday, May 31st the group washed cars under sunny skies for donations at the Irving Gas Station in Somersworth, NH and raised more than $300 for their team.  The second event took place on Saturday, June 14th at the Northwood Garage in Northwood, NH.  After a cloudy start the sun came out along with lines of cars to wash earning the Bearcats more than $350. 

 

A great big thanks to all who came out to support this group of boys and a special thank you to Northwood Garage and Somersworth Irving for hosting the events. 

 

For more information about the Somersworth / Coe-Brown Bearcats Hockey Organization please visit http://www.leaguelineup.com/information.asp?url=scbhockey.

 


 

Letter To The Editor

 

Once again, I am a candidate for the NH House of Representatives for Rockingham District 1, to represent the citizens of Northwood.  I first ran for this seat 20 years ago, and given the passage of time, want to remind you of how I initially became a candidate.

 

Johanna and I moved to Northwood in 1982, and with running my business and raising our daughter, I wasn’t  involved in politics.  And when it came time to vote, at least for the NH House seat, there was only one person to vote for: the Honorable Robert A. Johnson, long-time representative – and Town Moderator.

 

Having only a long-serving incumbent running unopposed as an option was not my idea of democracy, so, in 1994, I decided to pay the $2 filing fee and run.  I was trounced – 580 to 184 – but I had the satisfaction of having a choice and giving that choice to others.  

 

Over the next three cycles, I narrowed the gap to 60/40, but in 2002, redistricting lumped Northwood with Candia, Deerfield and Nottingham.  Republicans won all 5 seats in 2002 and 2004, but in Northwood, the gap narrowed to 1,108 to 900.

 

Finally, in 2006, Bob and I finished in a virtual tie: 661 to 651. More importantly, Democrats won 2 of the 5 seats, and we had a real two-party system here in Northwood.

 

Rep. Johnson retired and I moved out of state for several years to care for my elderly parents.  The 2010 election brought back 5 Republican reps and the contentious Bill O’Brien-led House.  In 2012, some sanity returned as voters sent Maureen Mann (D) and Bruce Hodgdon (R) to Concord to represent them.

 

In 2014, I am once again a candidate.  Support me and the two-party system.

 

Tom Chase 

Northwood

 


 

Volunteers Needed

 

The stone wall at Northwood Beach is almost complete. Two final work days are scheduled and volunteers are needed to work with Master Stone Builder Dan Schroth to complete the project. Consider donating an hour or two of your time to this community project to insure it will be finished for the summer season. No experience or skills are needed, just a willingness to help. The wall will be a permanent feature for generations to come. Please stop by the beach on Lake Shore Drive anytime from 7-2 on Saturday, July 5 or Sunday, July 6 and lend a hand. If you have any questions or need directions, contact Tim at 303-5224.

 


 

Town Hall Driveway Reconstruction

 

The driveway and parking areas at the town hall are scheduled to be reconstructed and paved on Tuesday, July 8 and Wednesday, July 9, weather permitting. During this time the ability to provide services to residents will be seriously impacted. Please plan to avoid these days and to conduct business at the town hall on Monday, Thursday or Friday of that week.  For the most current information on the status of the reconstruction, please check the town website: northwoodnh.org

 


 

Chesley Memorial Library News

 

It’s time for sun, sand, and stories!  The Chesley Memorial Library and the Northwood Recreation Department will co-sponsor a summer story time at  Mary Waldron Beach on Tuesdays (July 8 through August 5, weather permitting) at 10:45 a.m.  The kids want to swim, you want to relax at the beach, but you still want to encourage reading so let us bring story time to you.  All ages welcome; no registration required; approximately thirty minutes long.

 

“Fizz, Boom, Read!” at the Chesley Memorial Library this summer.  Our summer reading program begins on July 9 and ends on August 13 this year.  Join us for fun crafts and activities such as: lego challenges, bouncy balls, paint swirls, pinwheels and windmills, lava lamps, and homemade root beer floats.  Drop-in craft sessions will be held every Monday during the following times:

 

10:30am-12:30pm: PreK –Grade 2

1:30-3:30 pm: Grade 3-5

4:30-6:30pm: Grade 6 and up

 

Families with multiple age groups may choose to attend together, just pick whatever session works best for your schedule. Adults don’t let the kids have all the fun!  Even grown-ups read over the summer, so why not join too?  Just register at the front desk to get a raffle ticket for signing up and then fill out a raffle ticket for every book you read.  Drawings will be held weekly and winners will receive a gift assortment package…it’s that easy!

 


 

Letter To The Editor

 

Editor,

The FOR SALE, Commercial, sign on the Johnson field east of the dairy bar in Northwood is a shock to many residents who have treasured the view of great field, iron-gated cemetery, Narrows roof tops and low hills. No doubt there are also regular travelers through our town who were equally saddened to see such a sign in that well known “field with a view.”

 

There’s not another spot like it in all the miles between Concord and Durham. That view represents all that’s good in a state that prides itself on scenic beauty.

 

That it may soon be destroyed to accommodate a business that may or may not enhance life here in Northwood seems risky.

 

As most of us know, location is everything. The Johnson field view is enjoyed by a great many people because it is on a busy highway. Were such a setting off on a side road, the beauty would be the same, but few would have even known it existed. Sadly, that busy highway is also the very thing that makes the property so attractive for commercial purposes. A real plum for a developer.

 

Interesting that Benjamin Bickford, first to settle the west half of big Johnson field, (the house was right where the dairy bar is now), also had a problem with that highway.

 

According to legend, Benjamin Bickford was so angered when the First New Hampshire turnpike was laid out right through the middle of his farm that he sold out and left town.

 

That was more than two hundred years ago, about 1800. Now one wonders if it will be the farms, the big field itself, that will be the one to go.

 

Joan Weeks Bailey

Northwood

 


 

Letter To The Editor

 

My name is Leighelle, I am eight years old and I’m a member of Northwood Brownie Troop #11043. 

 

There is something that I don’t like to see, bullying in my school. It makes me feel sorry for the kids who get picked on. A solution for bullying is; when you see someone being mean say stop, and show support for the kid getting bullied. At school, I make non-bullying posters saying, “Lets have peace in our school”, and hang them in the hallways. I do this to show the people who bully, that it needs to stop.

If you see someone getting picked on, please help them so we that we can make bullying extinct. Thank you!

 


 

 

 











 
 

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