Burlington City Council apologizes to veterans

Last week I wrote that the Burlington, VT mayor, Bob Kiss, sent an anti-war activist, Jon Hausrath, to speak in his place at the local VFW Veterans’ Day ceremony. Hausrath then proceeded to beclown himself by paying homage to sundry cowards, chickenshits and curs instead of honoring the one day that is set aside to express appreciation for valiant service to the nation. Hausrath regaled the assembled veterans with tales of his daring do immersing himself in drugs and alcohol to avoid his military service.

Well, the Burlington Free Press reports that the City Council formally apologized to the veterans;

City Council, in an 11-3 vote, formally apologized Monday to veterans for remarks made by a representative of Mayor Bob Kiss at a Veterans Day ceremony at Battery Park.

The council’s three Progressives voted against the resolution. Jon Hausrath, a veteran who said he used drugs in order to be discharged from the Army and avoid deployment to a combat zone, advocated conscientious objection and praised war resisters at the ceremony.

Many veterans were offended by Hausrath’s speech, and Councilors Paul Decelles and Vince Dober, both Ward 7 Republicans, sponsored a resolution that called Hausrath’s remarks “inappropriate and offensive”….

For the record, the Progressive Party in Burlington is the party to which Bernie Sanders belonged when he was mayor – I guess it sounded better than the Socialist Party.

I noticed that there were a number of attempts by the anti-war crowds to thake Veterans’ Day away from veterans who served honorably this year – by ass-clowns at Geezers For Sitting on Our Hands and Dahr Jamil. We can probably expect more ass-hattery like this annually. Which is fine with me – the further these dickweeds get from middle America, the more they’ll be alienated from the main stream.

Category: Antiwar crowd