What you posted from the "Gazette" is a terrific piece, but it has the sniff not of an ordinary citizen, but of a professional writer. Are you sure this isn't someone's column, which wound up in the Gazette, and is now being passed around a if it were a letter to the editor, with the author's name removed? Remember, the same thing happened to "The Desiderata," which was written in the 1930s, but wound up being attributed as "found in Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, 1692"?
Please ping or e-mail me with whatever additional information you might have about this piece.
Congressman Billybob