I'm writing in response to Peter Hermann's article "Odd Crime Tales Rise Again In Dundalk" (May 30).

Dundalk the home of the uneducated? This is what is wrong with our society. If you don't have an education, you're stupid.

It takes just as much brain power to become an auto mechanic, a carpenter, electrician, a ship builder, etc., as it does to become a doctor or a lawyer.

When did it begin that if you didn't become a college grad, you were stupid? Where are our trades? Why should you be embarrassed to have learned one?

I would give anything to find a decent seamstress. Does learning a craft or a trade mean you're too stupid to learn anything else?

The people in Dundalk are not rude or crass. They might not greet you with, "How do you do," but they will greet your with, "Hi, hon."

As far as the odd crimes in Dundalk, how soon we forget.

In the last year, a businessman slaughtered his family in Carroll County, a man drowned his children in a Baltimore hotel, a businessman from New Jersey murdered his family in a Towson hotel, just to name a few.

Does being a businessman make it a nicer crime, perhaps not as "odd"?

The people in Dundalk are true Americans. They would be the first to fight and defend out country.

Dundalk was created for the servicemen who defended our country during World War II.

It is a tight community, a folksy community, and the people who live there should be proud of it.

Grace Lamana, Severna Park