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ANDREW MCCORMACK Woodbridge, Va...
...identified years ago and for which we were branded unpatriotic, even while our children were preparing to be deployed there? No! Sullivan still attempts to justify the war and mentions the dead and wounded Americans only in passing. Now that he has confessed, he should go to a VA hospital, apologize to the soldiers there and then visit families of those who died in the name of incompetence, narcissism and cultural ignorance. Paul I. Hettich Antioch, Illinois, U.S. I applaud Sullivan's confession of his regrets about the war. It takes a sound disposition to criticize long-standing personal beliefs...
...good news is that we have a communications system in place among the agencies, we have better equipment to train responders and we have a greater habit of working together than we did five years ago," says David Snyder, a Falls Church, Va., councilman who serves on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' homeland security task force. "The problem is that the linkages between these different systems and agencies are extremely weak...
...DeLay said he is likely to leave by the end of May, depending on the Congressional schedule and finishing his work on a couple of issues. He said he will change his legal residence to his condominium in Alexandria, Va., from his modest two-story home on a golf course here in the 22nd District of Texas. "I become ineligible to run for election if I'm not a resident of the state of Texas," he said, turning election law to his purposes for perhaps on last time. State Republican officials will then be able to name another Republican candidate...
DIED. LYN NOFZIGER, 81, irascible, savvy longtime aide to Ronald Reagan; of cancer; in Falls Church, Va. As head of communications for Reagan's successful 1980 White House bid, Nofziger endeared himself to the press with his candor, rumpled look and Mickey Mouse tie. The former newspaperman, who began advising Reagan in 1965, retired as a White House aide in 1982, but not before filling in memorably for press secretary James Brady after Reagan and Brady were shot by John Hinckley in 1981, delivering to reporters the President's quip "Honey, I forgot to duck...