The front page of The Times Record on April 1 told of our Navy’s award of $645 million to Bath Iron Works for the building, by its good men and women workers, of a guided missile destroyer. There are more to come. Living near the river I saw a destroyer when it churned slowly back home. It looked like a big gray ghost.

Many of us wish we could work and pay for non-destructive care and protection of the earth as much as we pay for the threat and possible use of cataclysmic destructive forces.

As an elderly, retired public health nurse and former Maine State Representative, I have learned of too many of our man-made chemical and nuclear power threats to life. I fear they are often made innocently and with too little knowledge of their side effects. Can we hope, help and work more wisely and be truly pro-life people before it could well be too late?

Maria Glen Holt,
Bath