I was very troubled by Eric Zorn’s Jan. 27 column in the Tribune Metro section, “Pardon me if I don’t get giddy over quint saga.” Zorn suggests that the desire for the Hortons to have more children was a poor judgment and that the decision of Marine Reserve Sgt. Joshua Horton to fight in Iraq was also poor judgment.
I would rather suggest that we have two heroes here–a mother who valued children as a hope for an embittered world and a father who sought to risk his own life to build that future world.
My difficulty is that I can understand how such a mean-spirited column could be written, but I can’t understand how the Tribune could agree to print it.
This paper once reflected values of faith, family and country–or at least did not offend these values with opinion pieces. Zorn may not share these values of family and country, but he should realize that perhaps someday these Horton children will be paying for his Social Security benefits and that Sgt. Horton may have been one of the brave men who sacrificed to preserve his freedom.
