Rockwell's business practices have nothing to do with religion

In response to Bob Yeats' May 14 letter “Rockwell Collins feeding military drone program”:

As a resident of Cedar Rapids for most of my life and an employee of Rockwell Collins, I'm wondering where he was living on Sept. 11, 2001. Sounds to me in a cave somewhere.

The company's business practices have nothing to do with religion. I am proud to work on a product designed to save lives of my fellow country men and women who have enough courage to defend our lives and freedoms. How many innocent lives were lost on American soil at the hands of terrorists who have totally different concepts of what freedom means?

I have no idea what this individual does or did for a living, but my guess is somewhere in an air-conditioned office with not a worry in the world. I have no problems serving my country in an indirect manner.

As for our chief executive officer, Clay Jones, he makes decisions that affect a lot of people. He does what he thinks is best for a company that has been around for decades. For a company to survive the economic woes that it has faced, something is being done right.

I suggest to Yeats that he keep his own doorstep clean before he judges others. I find it hard to believe that he doesn't have a family member who was in the military somewhere along the line.

By the way, those people hated Americans long before Sept. 11, 2001.

Paula Hernandez

Cedar Rapids