EditorialAria Rahmati wears the sapphire ring given to her by the man she loved, an Afghan special forces soldier, before she fled Afghanistan, in Leesburg, Va., Dec. 1, 2021. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
Editorial Winsome Sears, now Virginia's lieutenant governor-elect, speaks at a campaign event in Leesburg, Va., Sept. 8, 2021. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialLoudoun County High School, which changed its mascot from the Raiders, a nod to a Confederate battalion, to the Captains, in Leesburg, Va., on Nov. 9, 2021. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times)
EditorialAshrita Gandhari, 14, an eighth grader from Leesburg, Va., reacts after misspelling a word during the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Orlando, Fla., July 8, 2021. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialLake Harris, rest park 3 miles south of Leesburg, Lake, Florida, United States, Brachymesia gravida (Calvert, 1890), Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Odonata, Anisoptera, Libellulidae.