Re: July 27 guest commentary.
I won’t be voting for Darryl Glenn; he and I disagree on almost every political issue. In the Senate he would, in my opinion, lead the nation in the wrong directions. That vote, though, has nothing to do with his handling of the news reports of his 1983 arrest. That behavior is perfectly understandable to me, proving only that he’s human.
You see, I empathize as one who also grew up in a dysfunctional and occasionally violent family. I, too, intervened to keep my father from beating my mother. That is an experience so emotionally painful as to be debilitating if one doesn’t push it down and move on. Denial and erasure from memory are survival tactics. We deny to keep our focus on the present. We forget because we must.
Darryl Glenn is not a criminal; he made the difficult choice to live as an achiever, not a victim; good for him. Those who don’t know the aftermath of domestic abuse should be careful what they opine. So, letap get back to substantive matters here and now.
R. Taylor, Englewood
Isn’t Darryl Glenn the guy who took unsubstantiated potshots at Jon Keyser in the Senate primaries, insinuating that Keyser was lying about his Iraq military contribution, which was documented to include a Bronze Star award? Now, despite clear evidence as published in The Post that Glenn as a young man, signed for a criminal citation and summons with promise to appear for a court date, he has first tried to say “that was somebody else,” also denying his signature. Subsequently, he has claimed he has never been arrested, that he has “never appeared in court,” and that he can now, only with his mother’s help in recalling, admit only to “being called into a meeting with a judge.” Judges don’t simply “call for meetings,” Mr. Glenn — they call cases from a relentless caseload on a daily docket, so when you “found yourself” in a judge’s chambers, you would have been a listed defendant on a docket sheet. Enough of the mental exercises!
Peter Ehrlich, Denver
Thank you, Darryl Glenn, for your side to the story about the night of Nov. 20, 1983. Your article was truthful and it was very hard for you to talk to us about that happening. My thoughts go out to you and your mother. You have my vote.
Genevieve McCormack, Aurora
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