DuPage County Opinion
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Let bullied report online, privatelyNov 19, 2013 4:30 am - My name is Kelsey Vasilakis and I am a senior at Conant High School. I am responding to The Daily Herald editorial, “Going online to combat bullying.” The issue here is ...
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A more fitting name for Washington’s teamNov 19, 2013 4:00 am - I am not in favor of changing the Washington NFL team’s name for political correctness or any other reason. The nickname has been attached to the football team for decad...
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Who has a socialist agenda?Nov 19, 2013 3:40 am - His programs must be stopped, He wants to transform our country into a socialist state. His socialist agenda will destroy the America we all love, our freedom is in jeop...
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On being American ... and a MuslimNov 19, 2013 3:40 am - On being American ... and a Muslim One would think that being American and being a Muslim would have two diverging paths that would never cross. The reality is that...
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Shock among students, nuns working in hospitalNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - Where were you when JFK was shot? I was a student nurse at St. Anne’s Hospital on Chicago’s West Side. Some of us heard the news on the floors. I was between classes. We...
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Child born 2 months later is named JohnNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I certainly recall that day. It will never leave me. I was Christmas shopping in Oak Park on Lake Street I was seven months’ pregnant with my son John. I was in a jewelr...
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Gym teacher had to bear the bad newsNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - The day Kennedy was assisinated, I was a physical education teacher in Ocala, Fla. I taught in a unique school setup where we had all the seventh graders in the county. ...
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One goodbye to JFK isn’t enoughNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I have been to Brookline to celebrate his birth. I have been to Dallas to feel anger at his murder. I have been to Arlington to mourn his death. And I have been to his l...
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Sadly, many focus on JFK’s character flawsNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - In the fall of 1956 I was in the Augustinian Seminary and wrote on the blackboard that JFK would be elected president in 1960, though most didn’t even know who he was. B...
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Co-workers told of news after lunch hourNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I had returned to my office early after lunch. Most others in the department were still at lunch. I received a telephone call from a girl who was in the hospital. She wa...