OTHER VOICES
Feed the hungry
After dealing with a car that would not start duringThursday’s ice-coldheavy rain and windstorm, I sat inmy car stopped on Chin qua pin Round Road at Forest Drive. A poor woman was posted in the narrow median strip begging with barely a hint of her face showing.
Then, out of nowhere, a young Latino woman appeared, handed the beggar a large bag with hot coffee and prepared food andwalked away. The glum recipient delved into the bag and placed it among the litter in the median strip to enjoy. The giving angel scrambled across the dangerous road to the gas station sidewalk, pelted by the icy rain. Iwatched to see where she came frombut with the light change, I had to drive off.
It wasn’t until many hours later that I shared this remarkable act of compassion with my wife and decided to share it with you. I was moved to tears by this random act of kindness. Itwasn’t just the coffeeand food, but the reality that the angel would expose herself to the danger of twice crossing three lanes of heavy traffic while being pounded by freezing rain.
This is the true meaning of Christmas. During this horrible time of coronavirus and the economic chaos rendering thousands of our neighbors without jobs, food or hope, my Christmas message for all is to emulate the highway angel and feed the poor. The Anne Arundel Food Bank desperately needs your generous contributions as do other charities.
In this country of vast wealth and abundant food, there is no reason anyone should go hungry. Please support the food bank and be a Christmas angel feeding strangers.
Where did the angel come from? I think from a food truck always parked at the gas station, but perhaps she ascended to a higher place GERALDWINEGRAD Annapolis Editor’s Note: Gerald Winegrad is a retired state senator and writes a weekly column for The Capital.
PresidentTrump
Was Donald Trump a bad president when he launched Operation Warp Speed to bring the public and private sectors together to combat the coronavirus by producing a vaccine in record time saving tens of thousands of lives?
Was he a bad president when the economy produced more job openings than therewere unemployed?
Was he a bad president when the unemployment rate for African-Americans hit a 50-year low and median family income rose by just over $5,000?
Was he was a bad president when he eliminated ISIS and there were no longer headlines of our service members dying in the Middle East?
Wash ea bad president when the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain recognized
Israel as a nation-state, setting the stage for peace in the Middle East?
Maybe, just maybe Trump did some great things for our country. THOMAS CONNELLY Annapolis
Presidential felons
I read where President Trump pardoned still another of his henchmen, Michael Flynn (The Capital Nov 26). We can add him to the growing list of felons Trump surrounded himself with.
Roger Stone, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Steve Bannon (pending) are on the list. I can see the next book: “All The President’s Felons.” Coming to a bookstore near you. ROBERT J. NICHOLS Annapolis