The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, December 17, 1994            TAG: 9412160019
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A12  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   21 lines

RETURN TO TOLERANCE

Our society needs to return to tenderness and tolerance. Verbal violence - the hard words and tones we use to vent - will in time place a distance between us.

What we must do to thrive begins with love, sensitivity and working together. But first we must stop the madness.

JERROLD GREGGS

Norfolk, Dec. 10, 1994 by CNB