Thank You, Paulie, For One Final Push
Dear Editor: I’m so very honored to have walked with (Paulie) when he passed through Portland, Conn. (“Paulie’s Final Push Honors 9/11 Flight Crews, One Mile at a Time,” Sept. 12).
Paulie, I love the photo I took of you holding my sweet dog, Bella Lee.
My New York City apartment was 1.3 miles from ground zero. How many times, over all those years, did I look down 6th Ave. toward the twin towers, and never did I expect anything to ever change.
Life can certainly fool us.
Thank you, Paulie, for honoring the “first, first responders.”
You are amazing.
Adrienne DiMauro
via social media
Dear Editor: Thank you, Paulie, for honoring all of our crew members we lost on Sept. 11, 25 years ago (“Paulie’s Final Push Honors 9/11 Flight Crews, One Mile at a Time,” Sept. 12).
As a retired American flight attendant, they are forever on my mind.
We will never forget!
Kathleen Devitt
via social media
Remembrance Through Music
Dear Editor: Music has a remarkable way of carrying memories across the years.
Twenty-five years later, these songs still remind us of the grief, courage, unity, and faith that followed Sept. 11 (“Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?” Sept. 11, 2021).
We remember and pray.
Regina Tours
Manhattan, via social media
Thank You, Bishop DiMarzio For Speaking Up
Dear Editor: Many thanks to Bishop Emeritus Nicholas DiMarzio for shedding the light of truth on the administration’s callous deportation policies (“Walking With Migrants: Are There Defensible Reasons for Government’s Mass Deportations?” Aug. 22).
The welcome promise to deport the “worst of the worst” is, in practice, an unfeeling mass deportation of immigrants characterized by, in Bishop DiMarzio’s words, “workplace raids, courthouse arrests, and illegally obtained data.”
We need more Church leaders to speak out against the immorality of some of the enforcement practices in place.
As Bishop DiMarzio concludes, “Until the American public realizes the drastic mark that will be left on our national conscience and strongly opposes this policy, these deportation programs will continue.”
Luke Nawrocki
Long Island City
Remembering Father Vincent Capodanno’s Remarkable Life
Dear Editor: It’s Sep. 3, the fifth day of the U.S. Open. I was glued to the TV watching American Taylor Fritz, followed by the current rising young superstar, Alexandra Eala from the Philippines, my beloved country where I was born.
At 3 p.m., I wound up watching a movie about Father Vincent Capodanno’s life story. I’m always fascinated by any true-to-life story (“Veterans Gather to Pray for Father Vincent Capodanno on 59th Anniversary of His Death,” page 3), especially that of a saint. Previous issues of The Tablet have published stories about Father Capodanno and his path to sainthood.
Surely, I will miss my tennis program, but Father Capodanno’s life story was more interesting. On Sept. 4, 1967, at 38 years old, he became one of the casualties of the Vietnam War. Everyone mourned and was shaken by his passing.
He wanted to be with the infantrymen and sacrificed his life to help others.
Father Capodanno deserves to be beatified.
Carmen Rodriguez
Rego Park