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6 UCW JANUARY 25 - 31, 2017 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Dear Mr. Bowman, Generally, I enjoy reading your column but this week, I believe that you're off track in your analysis of the reasons why we have a trash problem. Let's stop beating around the bush, we have a trash problem because of two primary reasons. First, this is a military town. I'm military. Most military personnel are transient and transient people generally don't have respect for things they don't have ownership in. (Just look at the condition of homes between renters and owners.) On post I'm constantly having to send details (soldiers) out to do police call (picking up trash) around their own barracks (living quartets). Think about that for a minute. Soldiers are trashing their own living environment ... on post. Do you think they give a hoot about what's off post? No. Let's stop kissing the backside of the Army when they are half the problem. If you want Fayetteville to look better, the city will have to engage Fort Bragg leadership to help make it a priority. We do "Operation Clean Sweep" yearly on Fort Bragg for a reason … we dump on our own home. Do you think young soldiers care about your home if they don't even care about their own? Perhaps it's time Fort Bragg personnel come into town yearly and do a city wide "Operation Clean Sweep!" The second reason, there is a large community of people with just plain bad morals! Just say it! We have an overabundance of ghetto residents. Poor does not equal ghetto either. Prior to moving to Fayetteville I lived in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Anyone from the Sacramento area knows Rancho Cordova as being the blue collar section ... run by the Russians. There are a lot of small old homes but the neighborhood was spotless. It was the reason I moved there. There are a lot of cheap places to live in the Sacramento area but RC looked nice. What was the difference? There were older senior aged neighbors who would come to your door and politely ask you to clean your yard, mow your grass, fix things and you felt EMBARRASSED that you had let your area get to a point that a neighbor had to ask you to clean it up. There was no trash in the neighborhood, people just plain didn't throw stuff from their cars or just drop it on the ground when they were finished with it. Why? Morals. It's just plain wrong. You can sugar coat it and come up with all these other excuses but boiled down to its core ... it's just plain bad morals. It's ghetto. It's not the place, it's the person. How about a follow up article that holds the military and ghetto dwellers to the fire and challenge them pull their heads out of their self-centered arses and clean up their crap. Wait… change that… how about just being decent and not litter in the first place! Very Respectfully, Cris Dresch U.S. Army Home owner 12-year resident LETTER TO THE EDITOR Hold Litterbugs Accountable Meetings held at 130 Bow Street For More Information Contact Keri Dickson 910.484.6200 A Women's Business Networking Group Sponsored by Every Tuesday 8:30 am-10:00 am You Are Invited!