Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

I read with interest the column in the Jan. 2, 2020, edition of your fine weekly newspaper. (I look forward to reading it every week.)

Columnist Dave Scott Jr., in a somewhat sarcastic tone, asked legitimate questions about a locally discussed civil war in America. I would offer to answer those questions that he posed to people who seemed to him to be enthusiastically anticipating the horrific event.

He asked: Who will you shoot?

About three years ago, as I was planting trees with some helpers to form a riparian buffer at our farm in Shade Gap, I asked a young man the same q...