[Vision2020] Idaho's Part-Time Patriots

[Chasuk]

On 1/22/07, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> To the editors of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Lewiston Tribune, and
> Spokesman Review -
>
> On January 8, 2007, as a citizen of Idaho and a retired veteran, I submitted requests, via email, to various elected officials of the state of Idaho seeking to discover what has been done in locating nine unaccounted for POWs/MIAs who call Idaho home.

> As of today (January 22, 2007) I have not yet received a single response
> from Governor Butch Otter

> Senator Larry Craig, Senator Mike Crapo, and Representative Mike Simpson
> have simply not responded to my inquiries.

> Representative Sali remains inaccessible to his constituents

I'm sorry, Tom, but I wouldn't have responded, either.  We don't know
where Judge Joseph Crater is, and he disappeared within the United
States.  It is called a "cold case."  What do you expect Otter, Craig,
Crapo, Simpson, Sali, et al, to have done?  Should they have sent you
a placating letter filled with empty promises?  Indeed,  what was the
point of your wasted postage?  Presumably, you feel better for having
demonstrated patriotism, but did it serve any other purpose?