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that this act, at this time, in this place
is disrespectful.
Kneeling during the anthem is
disrespectful, period. That is not the debate.
The debate is about whether people tolerate
this disrespectful act in light of a stated
purpose. You're free to be disrespectful. You
have that right. You have a right to be
disrespectful for any purpose you choose.
If you want to protest the oppression of
minority millionaire athletes, by all means,
have at it. But don't hide behind the cloak
of your right and your purpose to pretend
that you're not being disrespectful to the
flag, the anthem, and the people who died
defending your right to disrespect them.
- Bryan E. Polk
Manassas Park
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR - A
CORRECTION AND AN APOLOGY
One of the more popular features in
Cooperative Living each issue is the
History Mystery contest, in which
hundreds, even thousands of
readers participate.
In 2018, there were two mistakes ―
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incorrect identities ― in two separate
History Mystery contests. The subject
of the July History Mystery, Dr. Ulysses
Grant Dailey, was incorrectly identified
in September's issue as Charles Johnson.
The subject of the September History
Mystery, Claude Daniel Ely, was
incorrectly identified as Roy Linwood
Clark in the November-December issue.
Numerous readers caught the mistakes
and gently informed us of the errors.
These mistakes resulted from faults in
our research, fact-checking and proofing
processes, which we have addressed,
and we believe, corrected. To our loyal
readers and History Mystery participants,
we offer humble, sincere apologies.
Since some entrants in both of these
contests correctly identified Dailey and
Ely, we planned to re-draw winners for
the two contests from the pool of correct
guesses. Contest entries come in via
email as well as USPS mail, and some
of the mailed entries were discarded
for both of the incorrectly identified
contest subjects, so we elected not to
re-draw since not all correct answers
would be included in the drawing.
Again, we offer our apologies to our
readers for these mistakes and hope
you'll continue to enjoy future iterations
of our reader-interaction contests.
- Bill Sherrod,
Editor n
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