I write to thank the Sun Journal for printing R. Cort Kirkwood’s column “”Involvement in Iraq simply wrong,”” (March 25).

Mr. Kirkwood writes the things I think, and long to read and hear.

I would like to comment about the offensive remarks directed against the French because they wished to avoid war and in allowing the U.N. to continue inspections.

My French ancestors fought in World War I and were gassed. My family, half Irish and half French, fought in Word War II. My sons were in the Army for 20 years; Mark served on a helicopter gun ship in Korea, Panama and the Gulf War.

My French ancestors were in Montreal, coming from Raven and Dreppe in 1633.

In 1962, I studied European literature at UMO and read Albert Camus, my favorite author who served in the French Resistance. His essay on capital punishment and his story, “Malentandu (Cross-Purposes) and L’Etrangere,” forever changed the way I think about the moral and ethical value of war, capital punishment, etc.

England occupied India and Africa, from which India, Pakistan and Africa have never fully recovered. Gandhi was martyred. Germany occupied Poland and other Eastern European countries. Russia occupied Germany and Poland. East Germany has not fully recovered this day.

I wish you would read “”The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists and the Stories that Shape the Political World,”” by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman. They demonstrate by example how selective printing and speaking obscures truth and factual reporting.

Joanna Walsh Ward, Lewiston