Possibly the best letter to the Editor ever.

This, from the Opelousas (LA) Daily World, under the header “Voters should decide for themselves:”

In Louisiana’s tradition of endorsement in a runoff, voters need to be wise and decide for themselves the way you want to vote for the D’s or the R’s. Some of the soothsayers are guessing a winner. It shall come at a time when the Lord shall cut off soothsayers. Michah 5-12. My grandfather was an immigrant and bought land at Bayou Rouge north of Palmetto for 5 cents an acre. In this region, there were two floods in 1912 and 1927. There were also four Indian mounds. But the farmers destroyed all but one. We all should know that indians were here before the white man. I have been voting since Roosevelt’s time, but don’t recall an Indian holding office in this state. Maybe if Jindal, the son of an Indian immigrant (not an American Indian), would be elected Louisiana governor, he would build new mounds for the state. In World War II, an Indian named Cloud carried me out of a cargo hole. I was injured at sea in a storm. V.J. Leger
Palmetto

I’m sort of assuming it only makes slightly more sense if you’re actually up-to-date on the local politics of Opelousas, but I could be wrong.

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