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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 19, 1993                   TAG: 9303190519
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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INSIGHTFUL 15-YEAR-OLD

I'M OLD ENOUGH to be her grandfather, but I believe I'd be very proud to have 15-year-old Crystal Blankenship for a friend because of what she said in her letter, "Schools need to teach morality" (Jan. 21).

Crystal has more insight into what this country needs than the eight U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted to ban prayer and Bible reading in public schools back in 1963. (One justice voted against the ban.) ROBERT S. McCORMICK JR. LEXINGTON

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