Editor,

This letter is in response to Ken Pickard’s First Amendment rights sign.

Another American journalist, a civilian, was beheaded by ISIS last week. This barbaric group will go to all lengths to show their determination to destroy anyone who does not share their beliefs.

Pilots trained right here at OLF are sitting off the shore of the Middle East ready to stop this brutal group.

Ken Pickard, you have not participated in any form of military service for the United States where you still have your First Amendment rights.  You have not had to feel the gut-wrenching when you are notified of your family member lying in a MASH tent in Vietnam.

Some of the property you inherited and where you live is subject to the Outlying Field air traffic. I live under the same training area, and I would rather hear the roar of the Growlers than the screams of the ones being beheaded and the cries of the family members when they received the news today of the death of their child.

God bless the families of James Foley and Steven Sotloff and the families of the other 26 civilians missing and being held by the militants.

Marjory Kroon Homan

Coupeville