To the writer who objected to the Jones Beach air show as a military recruitment event, recruitment was not the reason for starting these air shows “Key on healing, not air shows,” Musings, May 27]. The Navy and Air Force came up with the concept of the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds doing these shows as a reminder that there was still war going on while we are all home, safe and free.

Of course, recruitment tents will be there, it only makes sense. But that is not the point of these shows.

Air shows symbolize the greatness of those brave men and women, and why they have gone to war.

The writer is the wife of a Marine Corps veteran.

I read about Pete Rose getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame [“Pete Rose saga is tale for our times,” Opinion, May 18; “Enshrinement? Rose no sure thing,” Sports, May 18].

When a person gets out of jail after serving their sentence, society says, “They paid for their crime, everyone deserves a second chance.” Rose paid for his crime by not being enshrined in the Hall while he was still alive. What Pete did was wrong, no two ways about it. But if Major League Baseball keeps Pete out of the Hall for gambling, let them stop making millions of dollars in advertising online betting and changing the odds of who will win, during televised games.

Pete Rose, you’ve got my vote.

Pete Rose was an accomplished baseball player who violated baseball’s rules on gambling. I do not believe we should allow him or the 1919 Black Sox who also gambled on the game into the Hall of Fame. This is not who the youth playing baseball now should be looking up to as heroes.

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