America's a lot like the Titanic making her way through an ocean of danger. Any number of icebergs threaten to do damage and several are large enough to sink us. The captain warns us of the smaller ones, yet assures us our voyage is safe.

It was called "The war to end all wars."

Dear editor, This may be our last chance to save our natural wilderness by voting down and or prohibiting the use of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for arctic drilling. Please support the move to keep this area from greedy oil corporatists and their supporters. If the ANWR goes, what will stop them from drilling elsewhere in the country? We must act to prevent the loss of our natural environment.

Dear editor, Fuller Park is a local icon. In the '60s, a spiral slide, sand box and break-your-neck spinning wheel delighted kids of all ages to spend a lazy summer day at the park. The trio of swings that soared children 15 feet high in the air was a pleasure to watch, and once in a while a brave adult would swing right along with the 9-year-olds.

Dear editor, President Bush said it would hurt our pocket books to try to reverse the destruction to the ozone layer and restore the balance of the ecosystem.

Dear editor, My wife and I are very happy with Carneros School for several reasons. First, Carneros School doesn't have a lot of children. It is a small school, but very efficient. Carneros School doesn't have a lot of students, which means more attention is paid to the children. We drive our daughter to Carneros from American Canyon.

Dear editor, As a former master captain, the attack by the Somalian pirates on the American-owned, foreign-flagged passenger ship came as no surprise to me. Any prudent ship's master will navigate his or her vessel at least 150 to 200 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. This info can be found in the Notice to Mariners. Piracy against merchant vessels is currently committed in some ports of Colombia, Brazil -- namely Santos -- in the Bay of Benin around Nigeria, and foremost in the Malacca Strait and South China Sea.