Opinion

Robert E. Lee is to this day the only person to pass through the U.S. Military Academy at West Point without a single demerit. In the Mexican War, General Winfield Scott called him “the greatest soldier I’ve ever seen.” As an Army Engineer, he re-routed the Mississippi River and saved the city of St Louis. When he inherited slaves from his father-in-law, he educated them and set them free, and he referred to slavery as “a political and moral evil.”

Although my most recent CT Scan shows that my tumor has disappeared, I still make the rounds in terms of doctor visits (and will be receiving chemo for some time yet). On those doctor visits everyone wears masks, and I notice I sometimes have difficulty understanding what the masked health professional is saying. That got me to thinking about what the effect of masks is on the deaf. For some reason nobody ever seems to talk about that.

Matthew 5:13 (Jesus speaking), “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.”