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Each year, the post receives tens of thousands of letters from readers, from which we publish about 60 each week. Here are some of my favorite letters from the past year.
In her letter, sports referee and high school student Celia Quinn Barabanov described how parent and coach anger lead her to dash off the field after each game.
These writers discussed the bravery of several Olympics-aspiring gymnasts in testifying about the abuse they suffered while training under Larry Nasar.
These writers defended women's advancement in college attendance rates against Kathleen Parker's column suggesting a societal ill causing young men to reject higher education.
In the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States recorded more than 800,000 deaths from the virus. Harvey Solomon walked readers through a visit to a memorial on the National Mall honoring those people.
UFOs were in the news over the summer, and Kenneth Gubin looked for positive aspects to a possible alien invasion — past or future.
Noah Bein took a policy issue — gentrification in D.C. — and made it personal.
In responding to a Michael Gerson op-ed, reader Maryellen Donnellan calls for an honest assessment of the Republican Party after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
These letter writers were reacting to the horror of the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Their words displayed the agony at witnessing an attempted overthrow of democracy.
