It may be hard to imagine now, but there will come a time when today’s combat veterans, the ones who survive the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan long enough, will become the elderly veterans who wave to us from the parade floats.

The most fundamental right and privilege of being an American citizen is voting, yet in Maine, no one needs to show photo identification to prove that you are who you say you are. Why?

“Childhood Memories of the Maine Central RR Station,” by Calvin and Marjorie Dodge drew me back to the 1940s as I too grew up in Damariscotta. (LCN, 11/14/11, Page 13)

Thank you to all involved in the recent repairs and restorations to the Walpole, Huston, Woodward Cemetery on Bristol Road, Damariscotta. It was a job well done by our Cemetery Board and, most recently, by residents of Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.

I believe that Governor LePage is right and the welfare recipients should be drug tested. I think it is an insult to the hard working Mainers who pay State taxes that help support the welfare recipient. Why should our tax dollars support a drug addiction?

Each year at this time, as we pause to give thanks for the blessings we enjoy, we are especially thankful as we consider the letter from Waldoboro Selectman Steve Cartwright last week, and the responses he engendered this week.

Herman Cain came from a poor family. He grew up in Atlanta, Ga. His mother and father had a very strong work ethic and sent him to college. He graduated from Morehouse College with a BS in mathematics. He went on to Purdue and got his master’s in computer science.

Like troops across the country, Lincoln County Boy Scouts participated in the organization’s annual Scouting for Food drive this past weekend.

To the Editor:

I would like to take a minute to thank all those who supported me for the Ethel N. Kelly award…

On Nov. 8, the towns of Newcastle and Damariscotta vote on a ballot issue regarding whether to continue the fluoridation of the municipal water supply. This is an important public health issue…

Recently I received a phone call, a plaintive youthful male voice saying, “Grandma?”

To the Editor:

Members of the medical staff of Miles Memorial Hospital support the continued fluoridation of the community water supply.

We have heard a lot of back and forth about the value of adding fluoride to the community’s water supply in the weeks leading up to the referendum vote on the issue in Newcastle and Damariscotta, Nov. 8

To the Editor:

I want to thank Buzz (Pinkham) and Bill (Clark) and their army of volunteers who made Pumpkinfest 2011 another success for our community.