Dear editor,
I thought I had made monumental contributions as a USAF master sergeant with over 21 years of honorable service upon my February 1978 retirement. I received the normal good luck messages from the Out Processing Center, fellow unit members and friends.
I grew up in upstate New York prior to my USAF enlistment and ended up back in the area 13 months before my retirement. I spent the next eight months in Maine, got married, and then left for a job in Kansas.
The point I am trying to make is that I had not been thanked for my service until I had arrived in Iola. That did not happen just once but several times as I opened up business accounts and met my neighbors. I felt I received more cordial treatment from the Iola community than I did where I grew up. I am proud now to be a part of that community.
Dave Mathewson, MSgt USAF Retired,
Iola, Kan.
Letter to the editor — November 4, 2015
