Letters

Editor: The attempt to normalize the selling and domestic ownership of guns by locating a gun store in a former home

Editor:  I enjoyed your article “Board Balks at Push for More Homes, Schools.” Great reporting. Thank you for keeping us

Editor: I want to thank you for publishing that thought-provoking article “Memorials Would Spur Reflections on Local Lynchings.” My wife

Editor: The Hands Across the Appalachian Trail annual event will take place on Sept. 22 and 23 across the commonwealth,

Editor: I am proud to say I am a new Leesburg resident. My husband and I left Great Falls in Fairfax

Joe Torrillo was a Lieutenant with the New York City Fire Department, on limited duty because of a severe injury, when he saw the plane fly into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11. He rushed to the scene to assist with the rescue just in time to be buried in debris as the first tower fell. He had a fractured skull, broken ribs, a broken arm, a crushed spine and heavy internal bleeding. They had put him on a boat in the adjacent Hudson River pending evacuation when the second tower fell, burying Joe again, this time in the boat’s engine room. Insofar as is known, he was the only person buried twice during the 9/11ordeal, or at least the only one to survive such a double dose of bad fortune.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, which stretches from Rt. 15 in Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, through Maryland and down to Monticello in Virginia. Loudoun’s segment of the 180-mile long corridor is one of the most beautiful and best preserved.

Editor: It is truly unfortunate that Mary Pellicano, in a letter to this paper, compares campaign literature by Leesburg Mayor candidate

Editor: Our Board of Supervisors on Sept. 20 will be making an important decision—whether to begin 4-laning Rt. 15 north

Editor: Virginia’s support of the Equal Rights Amendment would redeem its historic promise of equality articulated in 1776, when Thomas