This letter is in response to your March 4 front page article regarding Wells being asked to drop the “Warriors” nickname. At Saint Anselm College, for our humanities course, we studied “Portraits of Human Greatness.” One unit we studied as freshmen was the warrior unit.
We studied warriors such as the Greek warriors of Homer’s “Illiad” and “The Odyssey”; Roman gladiators; knighthood as in Cervantes’ “Don Quixote;” Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers,” and even modern warriors such as those of World War II and Vietnam in the filmes “Patton” and “Apocalypse Now.”
When I think of warriors, I think of various national/military specialists, not any negative or offensive label. We studied warriors as honorable and protectors of the innocent, although some warriors could be blood-thirsty. That’s why we studied it. Good versus evil/right versus wrong/honorable versus dishonorable.
“Warriors” is a very strong name, and I believe it is used as a school mascot in the most honorable sense, with no offense intended whatsoever to American Indians or any people who are or were warriors.
I am not seeing that one nationality or race owns that moniker. Last, but not least, “Wells Warriors” is a fine alliteration, too.
-Vicki Vail, Saco
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