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Nothing gets people grumbling quite like rising prices. But it's

I spent a year in Vietnam September 1997 to September 1998.

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Dear Editor:

Right after my grandmother passed away in 1965, my cousin who lived in the flat above my grandmother telephoned me to tell me that she found a paper in grandma’s trunk in the attic, with names, birth dates and villages that were in Czechoslovakia and to ask would I be interested in it. I said yes and she mailed the paper to me. That paper sat in my drawer until I retired and then I started to do my family genealogy. My daughter emailed me one day and told me that she found a genealogist outside of Prague. I emailed him and asked him to do my four lines for me. I emailed him what my cousin sent to me and he said that he lived about 30 minutes away from these villages and that I gave him more information than most people do.

We found the responses to last week’s “Around the Water Cooler” question to be very interesting. They seemed to go with the political leaning each respondent has exhibited judging from past commentaries. Ruth Erickson provided the best response and Richard Herrera really has no clue! Mr. Herrera, it is not the responsibility of the IRS to specifically target groups or individuals; they are there to work impartially for all Americans as governed by our tax laws. In this case they chose to target conservative groups who were not in line with the current administration, and hence are the ones responsible for making this a hot political issue. What they did was wrong!

I like the poll on the newspaper's Web site, but I would have to

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