The Nov. 11 article recounts the UVa Student Council’s opening of the auditorium in the Special Collections Library (Snowflakes Anonymous card required to gain entry) as a “safe space for discussion” by “those feeling distraught over the results of the election” and the council’s asking faculty to cut some slack for students unable to focus on their work due to the election.

One hopes the auditorium was well stocked with “bankies,” sippy cups and pacifiers and bathed in the warmth of childhood lullabies. Perhaps while in their safe space, these fragile flowers can reflect on the mental, emotional and physical toughness of America’s fighting men, many much younger than they, who stormed Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944.