Dog’s home 2 years later
For those of you who do not believe in miracles, here’s a miraculous story for you.
Two years ago in May 2023, my daughter and I went on a cruise. We left our big dogs home and had a friend who happens to be a vet tech come feed them.
I had a little dog who I couldn’t leave home alone, so I took her to a friend’s house. She got away from the friend by slipping her collar while getting walked. I, along with many others, looked for her for many months.
On Friday, my daughter sent me a Facebook link because she saw someone had found a dog that looked like Addie. I cried when I looked at it, but when I talked to the lady, she had taken her to a vet to scan and they didn’t find a microchip. She took her to Mountain Shelter.
I looked at the photos again and kept thinking it was her. Sure enough, when they brought her out for me to see, it was my Addie, who is now sleeping in one of her favorite spots.
I can hardly believe this tiny little old (she’s 16) doggy has made it back home. She was at least headed in the right direction, just bypassed us a little from where she was and where she ended up.
Marian Hill, Murphy
Constitution being violated
The opinion headline “Help save the U.S. republic” was spot on, even if the writer himself, who states, “I feel I have a fair understanding of what the U.S. Constitution says,” got things wrong. Had he attended the gathering he writes about (they were not all Democrats), he could have obtained a copy of the Constitution being handing out for free, which upon reading he would have learned the multiple ways the current administration is violating it.
To whit: Article 1, Section 8 – The Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations (not the president, hence he has no power to tariff), to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union and repeal invasions (not the president, hence his use of the military and ICE in LA are not within his granted powers); Article III, Section 2 and Amendment VI: The Trial of all Crimes shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the state where said crimes shall have been committed. (Making all of the ICE deportations without trial illegal.); Amendment XIV, Section 1, all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States; and so on.
I urge all your readers to read the Declaration of Independence as well, especially the enumeration of the grievances against the then King of Great Britain. They are sounding awfully familiar to the actions of our current president.
Tom Hudon, Morganton, Ga.
Leave the lake for generations
I read the article about selling the land around Lake Hiwassee. My ancestors settled there in 1838 in a community later called Birch, near Beech Creek.
They were told that there would be no access to the land the family had owned for 100 years. It wasn’t just Birch, it was Persimmon Creek and other small communities to make way for the lake. The hearts of people who grew up in these communities were broken when families and neighbors were scattered all over the area.
They were separated from the people they had always known. Graves opened and bodies moved to different church cemeteries. Everything they had known was gone. My own father and his brothers, for the next 60 years, would go out to that area and remember the life there. From the lake they could identify where family farms were once located.
Now dependents of all those families would not be able to afford the land, and mansions would be built there on land early settlers cleared and loved. The land they built their homes, churches, school houses, cemeteries and raised their families. Think hard before you decide to sell to developers who will ruin these beautiful lakes.
Remember that many people gave all they had so the lake could be built. Their dependents heard the stories of the way it was and felt the connection to the land from the stories they grew up hearing.
The people who lived in Birch had annual reunions until early 2000s. Of course, most have passed on, but until their dying days they still loved the places the Tennessee Valley Authority took from them.
Think long and hard before you make it so it would be unaffordable to the families who settled in this county and they would not be able to enjoy this beautiful lake. Leave it for generations yet to come to enjoy.
Nancy Green Huffines, Marble
What else after files?
What else indeed besides the Jeffrey Epstein files? A tiny crack has appeared in the Hoover Dam-size wall of President Donald Trump’s believers in the last couple of weeks, and it is spreading.
The outcry from supporters and believers for the release of the “Epstein Files” (whatever that actually means) has the potential for instilling in the Trump supporter’s mind the question: What else could he be lying about?
What else, indeed? The question runs the gamut from Trump’s attack on President Barack Obama’s birth to his ability to speak coherently, with dozens of alleged and convicted criminal acts in between.
Bill Bagwell, Hayesville
Song choices nailed an era
This letter was addressed to Publisher David Brown.
You absolutely nailed it with your list of songs from the 1960s and ’70s that made people think (Our View, July 30 edition of the Cherokee Scout). Great songs and artists from my generation. You listened well, grasshopper.
In addition to your choices, I would add “American Woman” by The Guess Who – one of my favorite bands from the late 1960s-early ’70s. Canadians Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman, who later formed Bachman Turner Overdrive, fronted a really great rock band.
I saw them at one of my first live concerts around 1970 when I was a sophomore in high school. Then again 30 years later when they were touring with Joe Cocker.
Lo and behold, Cummings did a final tour last year, and we caught the show in Clearwater, Fla. While I’m hesitant to see some of the old rockers who really should be retired, Burton still has the pipes, fingers that still hit the right keys and a great band. Thrill of a lifetime all these years later.
Rock ‘n roll is here to stay.
Bob Sharp, Martins Creek