What's the point?
Dear Editor,
I just wanted to ask what was the point of the article written about the Travis murder?
Do you realize that it happened over 28 years ago? Is that the heritage of McCook that you want people to know, as if anyone has forgotten?
I hope that you know that the only people that were hurt by that story are the ones who are related to those accused.
I doubt very much that my uncles Jerry and Les Bussard are feeling the sting of the story, their families however are. Over all these years since that happened there has been a stigma associated with the Bussard name, trust me, I know from personal experience.
Some of those involved have children living in this community, who will now have to endure the snide comments of ignorant people who feel they need to chastise an innocent child for something that happened long before they were born.
Parents will tell their children they can't befriend them because they are related to a murderer. They will be looked down on from people in this community.
When I was a child the same thing happened to me, my siblings, and my cousins. Guilt by association, as if there is a choice who you are related to.
I hope that one day Mr. Sehnert's dirty laundry is hung out to dry in front of the whole community then maybe he will think before he airs someone else's.
Melissa (Bussard) Clinton
McCook