Dear Editor:

This letter is in response to the comment you made in your article titled, “My Country, My World, Near and Far.” In your article you make the rhetorical statement that, “Maybe you are asking why the editor of your small-town paper is writing about atomic bombs, endless war, and climate change.”

Well, aside from whatever personal drive you may have to become a national journalistic figure, yes, I am kind’a curious. You see, probably like most people, what I’d really like to know about from my local newspaper editor isn’t his opinion concerning nuclear war, the middle east, or even...