Jun 27, 2002 3 min read

Dear Editor: On July 4th our country celebrates its birthday. It’s a time of laughter, parties and of course, we cannot forget the fireworks.

Historically, this time also marks the season of low blood inventory levels. With your help we can change this and make this summer the season of saving lives.

Every two seconds, someone needs a blood transfusion. This means that blood must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

When a patient needs blood it must be there. The only way that happens is when healthy people in the community donate it. People like us.

This Fourth of July let’s give cancer patients, accident victims and premature babies, among many others, another birthday, another anniversary, another laugh, another hug and another chance to celebrate life. Let’s give someone another chance to join their family and watch the fireworks.

Call 1-800732-0383 for information on where to donate.Have a safe and happy summer.

Suzan Clemens

The writer is the donor resources field representative for the American Red Cross, Greater Alleghenies Region, Morgantown location.

Bankroll determines justice

Season of malcontents

Dear Editor:

I would like to address the use of malcontents to describe the problem of unrest in the prisons. There are far more malcontents in society as opposed to prisons of America.

One could go so far as to say there is a malcontent on every other, if not every, block of America’s streets.

The truth of the matter is that to address one as a malcontent is the very element that sustains malcontentness. The elements that sustain malcontents are active, meaning there is a previous action that brought about this state.

Based on this point one is left to search for the proper action that brings about the state of malcontent, the reaction.

We are left to search for the action that is the nucleus of malcontent, the seed of destruction left for society as a whole to cultivate out of there own malcontent state.

We create these states by way of our faults, selfishness and denial of the ugliness of our society’s attempt to hide our own imperfection.

When a person is born into the world, we know nothing, have nothing. We are taught everything. So for one to fail, many have failed.

We choose to condemn our failures by burying them in the past hidden from the present only for them to rise in the form of a state of malcontent, unrest, more and bigger failure, destruction, mental and physical mayhem.

Donte R. Williams

Fayette County Jail