ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Time now for your comments. And first to our story about the new speed limit in Texas.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: If 80 miles per hour wasn't fast enough for you, well, the state's House of Representatives has now voted to increase it to 85.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And Kenny McDonald(ph) of Portland, Oregon, wrote in with a pearl of driving wisdom passed down to him. He says this: Growing up in Texas and going on family vacations by car every summer, I know how desolate west Texas can be and the powerful urge to drive fast through it. But my father told me something when I was about nine that was so profound, it sticks with me 22 years later.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: While driving through the expanse, I asked my dad to floor it and see how fast the station wagon would go. He said no. I said there was nothing around for miles. And he said that goes for hospitals, too.</s>Mr. McDonald continues: His wise words have not only made me a more patient driver but a ticketless one at that.</s>Mr. McDonald continues: And many of you wrote in about our piece on the reunion of a special group of World War II veterans. The group is that Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first black fighter pilots.</s>Mr. McDonald continues: Among the letter writers was Robin Williams Wood(ph), whose father was a member of the 332nd fighter group. Wood writes this: The courage, determination and poise of these men is still - almost 70 years later - strong enough to make me pull over to the side of the road to weep. Thank you, I needed that.</s>Mr. McDonald continues: Well, thank you for your comments. You can send them our way at NPR.org. Just click on Contact Us at the bottom of the page.
Robert Siegel reads from listeners' emails about a measure to increase the maximum speed limit in Texas to 85 mph and our story on the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II.