Quote:For those interested in a follow up to the event.

 

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/milit.../86243824/

 

For some of our liberal friends that don't "get it", there's an interesting paragraph that pretty much backs up my statements.

 

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Air Force personnel may use a flag folding ceremony script that is religious for retirement ceremonies," the Air Force said in a statement to Air Force Times. "Since retirement ceremonies are personal in nature, the script preference for a flag folding ceremony is at the discretion of the individual being honored and represents the member’s views, not those of the Air Force. The Air Force places the highest value of the rights of its personnel in matters of religion and facilitates the free exercise of religion by its members.

 

 

For some of our other liberal friends that don't think that the word "God" has anything to do with it, there's this.

 

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Berry said in the letter that Lt. Col. Michael Sovitsky, the commanding officer of the 749th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis, tried to stop Rodriguez from attending Roberson’s retirement ceremony or delivering the speech once he learned Rodriguez planned to deliver a speech that referenced God
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Berry said that when Sovitsky found out he could not bar Rodriguez from attending the retirement ceremony as a guest, he told Roberson not to allow Rodriguez to speak. Roberson told Sovitsky he would not change his plans.
 
The letter said that Rodriguez and Roberson tried to resolve the conflict before the retirement day, and offered to place signs on the auditorium doors saying that the word “God” would be referenced during the ceremony.
 
Berry said in the letter that Sovitsky either told the NCOs to throw Rodriguez out, or the NCOs acted on their own and Sovitsky did not stop them. Either way, Berry said, Sovitsky caused or allowed Air Force members to “intentionally [violate] the constitutional rights of a private American citizen.”
 

 

It looks to me like Lt. Col Michael Sovitsky will probably be "retiring" pretty soon, if the military operates the same way that it did when I was a member.

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