Editor, Gazette-Journal:
On Tuesday, Dec. 19, there was a board of supervisors’ meeting in Mathews, and the Gazette-Journal had an article about the meeting and left out the other side’s version of the war memorial.
Here is what I said in front of the BOS:
“I am here to speak for myself … and I will use my First Amendment rights. I want to take time to thank you all for the service you gave. It’s not easy. Not everybody can serve. A lot of people don’t realize what it takes to serve on a board. You got people who will like you, and then you got the others that will dislike you. You’re not going to make everybody happy. I can testify to that.
“Now my issue with the incoming board, we will be entering into a new territory. With the monument, I would like to call it the war memorial. It will now be open to be removed.
“I see green paper again tonight; saw it last year in November. The little green badge they wore said the following ‘Protect & Preserved’ and had a full sheet of green c...