Letters: Scrim is the dog hero we all needed

Local icon Scrim appears before the New Orleans City Council. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Scrim's story of escape and capture and escape again brings to mind several memorable lines from escape songs of long past: From Nat King Cole's "Ramblin' Rose" ("Why you ramble no one knows") to Bing Crosby's "Don't Fence Me In" ("Can't look at hobbles, and I can't stand fences) to Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby Magee" ("Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"). But on another level, the final line from Tennyson's great poem of escape, "Ulysses," seems to sum up Skrim's desire not to be shackled: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

" Find that hole in the fence, that escape hatch and go for it, Scrim. And as another hero of the past used to sing, "Happy trails to you, until we meet again." FRANK JASTER Covington.