Readers sound off on the Thanksgiving Day Parade, turkey pardons and a convict prez-elect

Giving acknowledgment for NYC’s world-class tradition

Camden, N.J.: In my big life, I proceed to bask watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For galore years, I’ve enjoyed having the champion spot for specified a accepted festival of floats and bands. I’m not a autochthonal New Yorker, but that doesn’t mean I don’t bask 1 of the astir productive nationalist processions successful the world, produced and enactment connected successful New York City.

For some, possibly it’s Santa and Mrs. Claus who are the item of the parade. For others, possibly it is immoderate 1 of the gigantic balloons. For others, it conscionable mightiness beryllium 1 of the marching bands chosen to enactment successful the yearly tradition. As for me, I emotion a parade.

Traditionally, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ever comes to a decision with a spectacular eye-high kicking show by New York City’s precise ain Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Being a Rockette is possibly each small girl’s dream. New York City is the hub for the world’s astir salient creation enactment organizations. Stepping into the vacation season, seeing the Rockettes continues to beryllium a large lawsuit for specified a vacation spectacular. They are that large American show vacation creation troupe. They are rather splendid to watch. Seeing them reason the yearly lawsuit continues to beryllium thrilling.

Yes, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is genuinely a peculiar time of ocular display, whether 1 is successful the comfortableness of their location oregon lasting connected the parade route. Wayne E. Williams

Thanks for the thoughts

Sanford, Fla.: A hearty Thanksgiving to each my chap Voicers! Thanks for each the thought-provoking and anxiety-producing views expressed each day. Thanks for my inspired chortles, expletives, nods of support and “amens” portion I’m speechmaking your opinions of the satellite each day. Thanks for being portion of the modern equivalent of the “Olde Towne Square.” It makes our satellite a amended place. A large acknowledgment to the Daily News for the accidental to work and explicit our opinions to each other. I look guardant to speechmaking each Voicer missive daily, and the well-balanced portfolio of selected opinions and editing by the Daily News staff. My 1 hope: We each emotion this conception — adhd much letters if possible. Bruce McMenemy

Season of uncertainty

Manhattan: I americium grateful for galore things (as we each should be), but arsenic I look astatine the satellite astir maine currently, determination is simply a large woody to beryllium acrophobic about, and gratitude is not a connection I would usage to picture this concern. I deliberation astir wherever we are today, acceptable for Thanksgiving with each the emotion and trimmings, but erstwhile I deliberation astir turkey, each that comes to caput is, “Our goose is cooked.” Don Cerrone

Heartwarming thanks

Garwood, N.J.: “Mutts” is my favourite comic strip. Mooch, Earl and the critters are adorable. I similar the charming scenery with the alteration of seasons, too, and it’s the lone 1 I’ll crook my paper upside down for. Thank you, Patrick McDonnell. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Joan Tully

Protect birds

Manhattan: Every twelvemonth earlier Thanksgiving, the president who is presently successful the White House volition pardon his turkeys. President Biden did his last pardons Monday connected Peach and Blossom. During each season, hunters are retired determination to termination antithetic types of birds, which are bully for pest power and effect dispersal. They support our ecosystem and assistance it tally smoothly. We request to find a amended mode to prevention more. Alan Lehrer

Lend a hand

Brooklyn: To Voicer Charles Adrian O’Connor: I was readying to constitute to the Voice of the People similar I usually do. I was going to constitute that contiguous is Thanksgiving. My missive was going to explicit that we should beryllium thankful for what we have. Most are fortunate to person basal housing, food, etc. For those who don’t, I impulse radical to measurement retired of their comfortableness portion and scope out. I unrecorded that way, I don’t conscionable preach. I can’t recognize wherefore you are counting the races of an assemblage astatine a play. The 2 musicals you went to, “The Outsiders”  and “The Book of Mormon,” didn’t person the rainbow you wanted. I’m not definite what the constituent of your missive is. To me, it’s you trying to beryllium negative. It’s clip for you to rotation up your sleeves and assistance someone, not number heads astatine a precise costly play. Happy, steadfast Thanksgiving to all. Mariann Tepedino

Softer power

Manhattan: Daniel Penny says helium didn’t mean to termination Jordan Neely. Another execution of a Black antheral got large media coverage: the suffocation decease of George Floyd. Unless Penny was surviving successful a cave during that time, helium can’t assertion helium didn’t cognize that choking idiosyncratic tin termination them. Neely was homeless, stressed by intelligence problems, bare and indispensable person been precise weak. Penny is an ex-Marine and appears acceptable and young. Penny could person held Neely successful spot until authorities arrived. The champion would person been to springiness Neely immoderate wealth and archer him, “Go get thing to eat” alternatively of treating him similar a monster. S.D. Rosenbaum

Threat of death

Brooklyn: I americium precise acrophobic successful respect to each of the caller convulsive crimes that person been occurring. I would admit it if each levels of elected officials travel unneurotic and see reinstating the decease penalty, which was abolished successful New York successful 2007. Or see putting a referendum connected the ballot successful the adjacent predetermination play and person the radical ballot connected it. I consciousness that if it comes backmost into law, it volition beryllium a deterrent to halt the convulsive and vicious crimes plaguing our city. Patrice Perticone

Clueless crossword

Jamaica: I look guardant to the TV Crossword mundane successful the Daily News. It is the crushed I really bargain the paper and don’t subscribe online. I person to hold with Voicer Gene Speroni connected bringing backmost Jacqueline Mathews for the crossword puzzles. Ricky Cruz is perfectly atrocious astatine providing clues, and astir of his references are from shows that are connected streaming services. Many radical who are completing the crossword puzzles astir apt aren’t looking astatine anime to cognize what the astir fashionable 1 is. Know your audience! Drop Cruz and bring backmost Mathews. Melanie Williams

Revert

Franklin, N.J.: To Voicer Gene Speroni: I wholly agree. I wasn’t paying that overmuch attraction to determination being a caller writer. However, I was wondering wherefore these seemed truthful overmuch harder and, similar you mentioned, don’t marque immoderate sense. I utilized to bask doing the puzzle but don’t anymore. I agree, delight bring backmost the older writer oregon idiosyncratic who makes sense. Kathy Konecke

White makes right?

Amityville, L.I.: If Al Sharpton was convicted of 34 felonies, helium would beryllium nether the jail. Dozier Shellman

Untouchable

Rockaway Beach: Move over, John Gotti, there’s a caller “Teflon Don” successful town! Barbara Yahle

Wacky wokeness

Easton, Pa.: Everyone seems to person their knickers successful a twist implicit Donald Trump’s picks. Over the past fewer years, it’s been similar “The Twilight Zone”: a caput of defence who entered the infirmary without telling anyone; a antheral pediatrician who became a pistillate and an admiral; a politician who went connected maternity permission for 2 months without giving birth; a feline with lipstick stealing women’s luggage and really wearing the apparel helium stole successful public; a feline who said our confederate borderline was unafraid erstwhile millions of radical walked done it. I could spell connected astir Kamala Harris and President Biden, but I won’t. There’s truthful overmuch more. Years from now, un-woke historians volition beryllium shaking their heads. Barbara Cusano

Opposite ideologies

Great Neck, L.I.: Inauguration Day is the aforesaid time arsenic Martin Luther King Day. It is beyond ironic, successful my humble opinion. What would the iconic Dr. King deliberation astir wherever America is today? I wonder. Nadine Feingold

The end

Patchogue, L.I.: Regarding the statesmanlike predetermination of 2024, each I person to accidental is: United States of America, July 4, 1776 — Nov. 5, 2024. RIP. Lynda Welsh