POSTED: October 11, 2023
The world keeps changing. And its not clear it changes for the better. This website has been an important link for both our Members and as an outreach to others. But some time ago, the then President Trump decided to try to humiliate us as I mentioned in my post on June 13, 2017. His comments did not work and we have had considerable support partially in response to his perspective.
But unfortunately, we are self-funded and the number of Trump supporters who have swamped our little website with truly mean-spirited comments has resulted in our turning off the COMMENT section as we are just not equipped to respond, even by simply deleting those hateful messages. It is unfortunate as we have used that section for many potential members or their families to provide meaningful feedback.
It is something of an irony that the definition the Trump supporters use for free speech, is so hateful we needed to ban them from our website. So this round goes to Trump and his supporters, but we have been in this position before. Our little group was created during the Cold War to respond to well intentioned but misdirected Americans and it seems that six decades later we are dealing with another version of the same type of patriots.
Stay tuned. The war is far from over.
Sally