Abortion is also tragic
Re: “Tragic faces of history,” July 22 Life and Culture story
The exhibit you talk about in Sunday’s paper is indeed sad and heart wrenching, thinking about the lost 5,000 to 10,000 lives each year due to botched abortions. It is good to memorialize these women and the lives they could have and should have led. Not to be heartless, but these beautiful women, all of them, had a choice and chose poorly.
You know who doesn’t get memorialized are the million babies whose lives are taken each year by desperate women who think there is no other way when in reality, there always is another option.
These young lives are torn from their mothers wombs, suffering pain in the process, before they even have a chance to make their marks on the world. Why does nobody care about their little tiny lives? Because we can’t see their faces, nobody documents their tragic ending, nobody is thinking of the future they were robbed of, and we didn’t take the time, love, compassion, or patience to give them life, watch them blossom, and get to know their personalities.
Anyone who believes in God and heaven will meet these little angels someday, and then you can tell them face to face why their lives weren’t worth saving. And you will then see living proof how uniquely special each of those squandered lives are in the eyes of a loving God.
Carol Summerlin, Littleton
Transparency for GOP and Dems
To our politicos currently representing both Democrats and Republicans: I have a simple solution to most of the public’s consternation of whom to vote for. Democrats, get Hillary Clinton to release all the emails. In exchange, Republicans, get President Donald Trump to release his back tax returns. Then we, the public can see just who is either treasonous, or crooked. Before the midterms would be good, but before the presidential election is a necessity.
William E. Smith, Aurora
Quiet zone first for G-Line trains
Re: “RTD G-Line has federal OK … ,” July 21 news story
RTD issued a news release on Friday announcing that “testing of as many as three trains is to take place every half hour starting as early as 3:30 a.m. and extending through 1 a.m. the following day.”
There are 10 at-grade crossings in the approximate 3-mile distance between the Olde Town Station in Arvada and the final station in Wheat Ridge.
Until quiet zones are approved, train operators are required to sound their very loud horn at least 15 seconds before reaching every at-grade crossing. Operators are required to sound the horn starting as much as one-quarter mile from every at-grade crossing and then in a required pattern until completely through the crossing. With many crossings per mile and trains running up to every 15 minutes in each direction, there will be a cacophony of train horn noise pollution for residents both adjacent to the tracks and in nearby neighborhoods.
The August 2009 Gold Line Environmental Impact Statement identified 356 residences in Arvada that would experience “severe noise impacts” with horn operation.
Arvada has a noise ordinance mandating quiet hours between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.
RTD should respect the intent of Arvada’s noise ordinance and families living near the tracks. RTD should not operate trains during quiet hours until quiet zones are approved and trains can operate without sounding their horn. It would be unconscionable to do otherwise.
Wayne Graham, Denver
