From coronavirus, murder hornets, racial injustice and the upcoming presidential election...I’m waiting for someone to say, “You have now entered The Twilight Zone.” Growing up and even now I still love the tv show The Twilight Zone. I feel like each episode teaches you a valuable and important lesson. Yes, in some episodes you do have to really think about the meaning of the episode or rewatch it and many times the episode is open for multiple interpretations. One of my favorite episodes, which I believe has a clear message, is the episode titled, “The Masks.”

I have continued my look back to the 1940s and decided to recall what toys were invented or introduced in the United States during that decade. Here are some I found, and most of them I remember.

To the Editor: Our education system doesn’t have to be this way. We are choosing to wait for instructions from Washington and Austin.

To the Editor: With thanks to the leadership of Mayor Janet Moerbe, La Grange is following the leadership of science and medical experts. Her courageous vote for mask wearing, in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, challenges the political atmosphere of “making our own decisions.” For the sake of doctors and nurses who care for COVID patients, first responders who continue necessary services, school teachers who are considering the risks of “in-person” instruction, and anyone whose livelihood is threatened by the spread of the coronavirus, all precautions need to be in place.

To the Editor: People we are losing our liberty a little bit at a time by bending to foolish rules that are of dubious efficacy and even questionable legality. The governor has ordered that everyone must wear a mask when in public.

To the Editor: Regarding your front page story concerning the hit-andrun subject: I can only imagine how the Lehmann family must feel, definitely no sense of justice for sure. Here this dude was in the country illegally, he is driving drunk and kills an innocent citizen.

To the Editor: Neighbors of Fayette County, we are in challenging times spiritually, medically and civically. Never before in my 77 years have I been more concerned about the humanistic expansion in our nation and the world.

To the Editor: I love reading the Friday edition of the Fayette County Record with regard to the Letters to the Editor. There seems to be no end to the rhetoric from individuals who have no basic science education and just seem to spew endless derogatory remarks.

To the editor: This past week, for the first time in many moons, I could not make myself read the Opinion Page. I simply was overwhelmed by the voluminous epistles found there.

On Jul. 22, 1917, a young soldier from East Texas was recovering from serious wounds, while coping with the effects of a mustard gas attack 72 hours after fighting his second two-day battle in seven weeks.