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Western Springs, Ill.: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free vacations and valuable gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow. Thomas said he and his wife were “dearest friends” of the billionaire and his wife for more than 25 years. How long would they have been dearest friends if Thomas was not a Supreme Court justice?
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Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Re “Let jihadi killer live: lawyer” (Feb. 14): Much has been made about “his ISIS-inspired worldview,” which led bike path killer Sayfullo Saipov to hit New York with its worst day of terror since 9/11. Yet it needs to be emphasized that neither ISIS nor Al Qaeda was the originator of that ideology of death.
Seaside Heights, N.J.: Bullet holes from strafing still scar the buildings at Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu, a haunting testimony of the events that occurred 80 years ago today, a grim reminder of the “Day of Infamy” and the horrors of global war.