Published: February 26, 2008 06:17 pm            

LETTERS: Feb. 27, 2008

Clarksville reader upset with story, quotes



On Tuesday, Feb. 19, I received a telephone call from David Mann, a reporter for The Evening News. He said someone had told him that I was very upset about the attack and rape that had occurred behind the school.

My reply was “I am? Who told you that?”

He replied he would rather not say and this is when I should have hung up the telephone, because as I told him, I would rather not be misquoted. Instead what I said was taken out of context.

No one could have told him I was upset since the only person I had talked to about the situation was a close friend who had asked me how I felt about the attack and she had not spoken to him.

I do think it is horrible that an act of that kind was done in my neighborhood, but I am not totally surprised. My husband and I have taken our grandchildren to the playground and do not stay when teenagers are there or do not stay long due to the bad behavior and trash talk we have observed — not just there but in my neighborhood and in front of my home. The majority of teens that hang out there have low self-esteem, no values or morals, and no respect for anything or anybody.

My comment, “I think it’s horrible” referred to the attack itself and not the police.

And I have not been “online” since May of 2007.

— Mary Zimmerman, Clarksville

        

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