I went down to Brunswick to the air show. It was rainy and kind of dreary. As I walked, I saw new jets and old planes, I saw the Pappy Boynton Navy plane that took on the Japanese Zeros in the South Pacific: Baa, baa, black sheep!

I am an Army man, so don’t take this the wrong way. My son was in the Army, served in Bosnia and I am a real proud dad. But I took a “sim” (short for simulation), kind of like the games kids play now, but more real.

After being in the simulator, the soldier said, “Wasn’t that fun?”

I said to myself, “No, that was not fun! War! Real war! It’s hell! It takes loved ones away, cripples men, breaks up families and destroys lives on both sides!” As I was exiting the base, there was an antiwar group protesting war.

Can anyone tell me how to stop war?

It couldn’t be found by anyone there.

John Bean, Lewiston