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Veteran's Microphone Muted As He Talked About Black History Of Memorial Day (Original Post) USAFRetired_Liberal Jun 2021 OP
I quit BeerBarrelPolka Jun 2021 #1
I dropped mine in 1973. Elwood P Dowd Jun 2021 #7
This is just unbelievable. Diamond_Dog Jun 2021 #2
Much more at this link. I just deleted my post because I saw yours. sinkingfeeling Jun 2021 #3
A thing to remember about remember about Ohio is while it was majorly involved in the ... marble falls Jun 2021 #4
Combat vet censored by white supremacist posers. Kid Berwyn Jun 2021 #5
How did that work out? cbabe Jun 2021 #6
Every day they expose their true colors more and more ornotna Jun 2021 #8

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
7. I dropped mine in 1973.
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 11:41 AM
Jun 2021

Got tired of listening to the racist WWII vets. Most of us Vietnam-era vets had little in common with those assholes.

Diamond_Dog

(31,660 posts)
2. This is just unbelievable.
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 08:46 AM
Jun 2021

I see The Hill and WaPo have picked up on this astonishingly disgusting act of censorship by these cowards, and I hope these organizers (cowards who took turns throwing each other under the bus) get endless grief over it.

This man deserves an apology and those Hudson organizers should be made to resign in disgrace permanently.

sinkingfeeling

(51,276 posts)
3. Much more at this link. I just deleted my post because I saw yours.
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 08:52 AM
Jun 2021
https://amp.beaconjournal.com/amp/7508217002?__twitter_impression=true

HUDSON — What at first blush appeared to be a short audio malfunction at Monday's Memorial Day ceremony in Markillie Cemetery turned out to be anything but.

A ceremony organizer turned off the microphone when the event's keynote speaker, retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter, began sharing a story about freed Black slaves honoring deceased soldiers shortly after the end of the Civil War.

The microphone was turned down for about two minutes in the middle of Kemter's 11-minute speech during the event hosted by the Hudson American Legion Lee-Bishop Post 464.

Suchan said organizers wanted this part excluded because it “was not relevant to our program for the day," and added the “theme of the day was honoring Hudson veterans.” 

marble falls

(56,358 posts)
4. A thing to remember about remember about Ohio is while it was majorly involved in the ...
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 08:53 AM
Jun 2021

Underground Railroad, it also had a major nest of Copperheads during the Civil War.

Note there were VERY few people of color in the band, the audience or the program. Lt Col Kemter was there as window dressing to begin with.

Kid Berwyn

(14,651 posts)
5. Combat vet censored by white supremacist posers.
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 09:57 AM
Jun 2021
Cindy Suchan, who chairs the Memorial Day parade committee and is president of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary, said it was either her or Jim Garrison, adjutant of American Legion Lee-Bishop Post 464, who turned down the audio. When pressed, she would not say who specifically did it.

Source: https://amp.beaconjournal.com/amp/7508217002?__twitter_impression=true

Suchan and Garrison should be ashamed.

ornotna

(10,763 posts)
8. Every day they expose their true colors more and more
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 11:54 AM
Jun 2021

Blue lives? Nope, scratch that.

Green lives? Ha! Surely you jest.

They really don't have any self control do they.

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