Editor:
After reflecting on the bridge disaster in Baltimore Harbor, I have two proposals:
First, the bridge’s eventual replacement should not memorialize F.S. Key; he was a slaveowner.
Second, we should use this moment to petition Congress to adopt “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” as our national anthem; it was written by an abolitionist and sung by U.S. troops as they fought and died to abolish slavery.
Gren Whitman