Article: SUNDAY FORUM: IN DEFENSE OF WEST VIRGINIA, DANIEL BOONE AND ROBERT BYRD.(COMMENTARY)(Letter to the Editor)

These letters are in response to Kerry Dougherty's Jan. 7 column, ``Sore about W.Va. skit? Look at it with humor.''

Leave football and pranks to the college kids

The skit played by the U.Va. Prep Band is something one comes to expect from college kids, although I found it distasteful. The article written by Kerry Dougherty, however, is disrespectful.

I am a West Virginian who serves in the Navy here, and like Ms. Dougherty, I was at the Tire Bowl. Her view on what happened is degrading as she compares the Mountaineer mascot to Jed Clampett and goes on to ridicule West Virginians because we take offense at being sterotyped.

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