A recovering Paul Pelosi shows a bit of Charm City pride

Your report that Paul Pelosi’s first words to his wife, U.S. House Speaker Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, were about a Ravens victory should rekindle hometown pride in the hearts of Baltimore (“Her husband’s mention of a recent Ravens win reassured House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of his recovery after attack,” Nov. 8).

Nancy grew up near our Inner Harbor in Little Italy, in the home of her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and as Baltimore’s mayor, and with her older brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III, who would also serve as mayor. Nancy’s mother,

Annunciata Lombardi D’Alesandro, was a busy political mom, devout Catholic and den

parent to anyone in the neighborhood who needed assistance.

A grievously wounded husband saluted Nancy as she was and remains: a Baltimore lady. Therefore, an old fashioned sense of neighborly common good in all of us should feel under assault when a right-wing election denier screaming “Where Is Nancy?” hits her husband in the head with a hammer. That attack was also on our decency, our hope and our good will.

So let’s hope Paul’s use of a Baltimore sports victory to signal he’s going to make it is a vivid reminder of the day-to-day good faith needed to everyone back in his wife’s hometown.