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Throughout the project, the Koppys' daily,routine was never disrupted — a critical point considering that David and Elissa run a home-based computer consulting company. The work went so well, in fact, David recommended the company for his sister's home renovation. So, if you're looking for a simple correction. or a dramatic home makeover, Gittleman has the answers. Just ask the Koppys. Call today. and discover how easily Gittleman can convert your house into your dream home. GITTLEMAN GC CONSTRUCTION Inc 28580 ORCHARD LAKE RD., SUITE 102 FARMINGTON HILLS, Ml 48334 248.538.5400 10731 2003 6 www.gittleman.net In the movie The Godfather Part II, when Al Pacino's wife asked for a divorce and the children, he replied, "With all of my power, do you think I would let you take my children?" In the same line of thought, America, the strongest country in the world, is spending billions of dollars on arma- ments and sits back and is watching our young men being killed in Iraq. These lives should not be used as pawns. They are precious and must do everything in our power to preserve them. Under Saddam Hussein, everybody understood the rules and they all behaved themselves or else. Americans, on the other hand, are trying to play cricket. The comfort zone for Iraq was to live in terror. With all of its power, America shows weakness. We're not willing to do what it takes to fight terror with terror. If you want to stop the killing of our young men, you have to fight on their level. Remember, we killed 175,000 inno- cent lives in Japan in order to end World War II. This ultimately saved a lot of American lives. Robert Leaf Farmington Hills Fight To Prevent More Pogroms Regarding "Remembering Babi Yar" (Oct. 17, page 39) and the murder of Kiev's Jewish population — believe me, I am not trying to diminish the gravity of the Nazi Germany occupation. But • more must be said. This was not the first wholesale killing of the Jewish population in Russia. My maternal grandfather, Zayde Aaron Epstein, and his second wife, Esther (my mother's stepmother), residents of a lage in White Russia, a town that the Germans wiped off the face of the earth, were also murdered in a wholesale killing,_in exactly the same way. That was in 1939. -- Yes, the Germans murdered innocent civilians, and the former Soviet Union rounded up all of the children who were old enough to take care of themselves and shipped them off to camps east of the Volga River. The parents were left to be killed by the Germans. My mother has _three stepbrothers, offspring of my zayde's second marriage. The Soviets came and took them from their mother and father as they did with countless other children. Those children were raised as atheists. The two older brothers served in the Red Army in World War II, both surviving. The youngest, after induction into the army, was shot by his commanding officer for being a Jew. He survived the attempted murder, but became handicapped. After World War II ended, my moth- er tracked down her three half-brothers. They were living in Moscow. Many letters later, she got a letter from her eldest sibling asking her not to write anymore. The KBG was opening all of her letters, reading them, blacking out anything they didn't like and then hand delivering them to her stepbroth- ers' houses. It made them fear for their and their families' lives. The Russian government today is being run by the same gang of anti- Semites as during the Soviet era. We must get our brothers and sisters out of Russia before the pogroms begin again. Gerald M. Pergament Macomb Township Another Candidate Spoke At Forum Your article on candidates for president forgot to mention the only Arab American candidate who spoke at the recent forum in Dearborn — Gary Nolan — who is of Lebanese Christian heritage ("Their Own Words," Oct. 24, page 19). Gary Nolan is seeking.the nomination from the Libertarian Party. This was his fourth campaign trip to Michigan this year. After the candidate forum, Gary Nolan met with members of the Libertarian Party of Michigan. His Web site is www.GaryNolan.com Leonard Schwartz secietai:); Libertarian Party of Oakland Co 'linty Oak Park