BRATTLEBORO — Another excellent column by Joyce Marcel [“Kunin calls for a truce in the war on women,” April 25].
One minor correction: There are three women justices on the Supreme Court, not two. (We need them all, and more.)
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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