[Miss Marple]

Dear Gretchen,

They are 21 years old. I think we should be glad to see that they are 1. at Easter services with their family and not running around on a beach in Florida, 2. Wearing dresses and not jeans, and they have no tattoos or body piercings, and 3. Went to visit wounded GI's.

Standards and tastes change over the years. This is actually quite conservative clothing from what I have seen of my daughter's friends. You should have seen some of the outfits that were worn to my daughter's large, formal, evening church wedding! We had everything from jeans to a strapless dress!

However, I was glad that my daughter had so many friends who wished her well. And I am glad that the Bush daughters are behaving like this. How many times did Chelsea visit wounded or ailing soldiers?

[cajungirl]

Plus Miss Marple, they have great legs, good hair, very little make up and tastefully done, the decency to have on lengthy flowing skirts, little jewelry and aren't cavorting on Majorca or whereever with their lover in a bikini with their stomachs pooching out. The people here are reminding me of islamofascists with their attitudes toward young women. The girls are gorgeous, and perfectly appropriate for a chapel on a military base in texas. It is not the Vatican. And I will bet the soldiers loved them.

[Demetrius Slaughter]

"They are 21 years old. I think we should be glad to see that they are 1. at Easter services with their family and not running around on a beach in Florida, 2. Wearing dresses and not jeans, and they have no tattoos or body piercings, and 3. Went to visit wounded GI's."

You are right that the above is all well and good. While they could have dressed better they could have dressed much worse.