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"We are here to celebrate the fact that we have a free press in the United States," said Stephen Tillett, a pastor in Annapolis, near the start of the vigil. "We have a newspaper that has been doing business since 1727."
Some of those gathered were readers crying for the sudden loss of reporters whose work they had read week after week.
"You feel like you know Sandy Bartlett, 52, said:
Others were elders from the decades-old press house – reporters, photographers and editors – who had come from Washington and other cities for a meeting that they never expected to have. "Our identity must be open and accessible and listen, and that has killed five," said Ledyard King, 54 years, reporter for USA Today who worked for The Capital from 1988 to 1994. At that time, he had worked with two of the victims, Mr. Fischman and Mr. McNamara
.King said he wished he could read what Mr. Fischman, the editor-in-chief, could have written on such a painful moment as this: "He would have been the one who helped us understand," said Mr. King. Instead, the editorial page was left almost empty Friday. "Today," he says, "we We are speechless. "
As the vigil wore off, Mr. Furgurson, the reporter, was moving in the crowd, well aware that he was still on duty. "I'm on the cops and thieves," he said. "Until now, a night without incident."
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