To the Editor,
In late September of 1986, a killer arrived in the Warren County area named Michael Wayne Jackson. On his race through three states he murdered three people and abducted several …
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To the Editor,
In late September of 1986, a killer arrived in the Warren County area named Michael Wayne Jackson. On his race through three states he murdered three people and abducted several others. Near Wright City he crashed his car and fled on foot into the woods. For 11 days he was pursued by local, state law enforcement and the FBI. Checkpoints were manned around the clock on the ramps of I-70 and the county was held hostage. We made national news.
When this “fear and chaos” was over and Jackson was found dead in a barn, one man was quoted, “It’s like having a load of bricks lifted from your shoulders.”
Three dead, very bad. However, we now have a killer haunting Warren County. It’s called COVID-19 and it’s killed almost 250,000 in this country alone. Why aren’t we just as fearful and obsessed at eliminating this killer as we were Michael Wayne Jackson? We don’t need FBI training; it’s pretty simple, really. Wear a mask, social distance, wash hands, and keep social activities to a minimum.
We can rid the country of this killer if we work together as we did in 1986. It is a simple commitment to care about each other. As Mahatma Gandhi said over 100 years ago: Man should earnestly desire the well-being of all God’s creation and pray that we may have the strength to do so. In desiring the well-being of all lies his own welfare. (p.45 “A Golden Treasury of Wisdom”)
