Caution was the proper call
By Staff | Feb 3, 2021
To the editor:
This is a response to the letter written by former U.S. Army National Guard member, citizen Thomas Gunderman.
I have researched and can find no place where President Biden said that he was fearful of the U.S. military members assigned there to protect and safeguard him. The Department of Defense, an apolitical organization within the federal government that was carried over from the President Trump administration, worked with the FBI to vet all the National Guard and other military personnel involved with the Inaugural. I think the Administration would be a ship of fools were it not overly cautious and, if some may have been, fearful, that there could be subversives among our good men that might act against the cause of a peaceful turn over of power.
Caution was the proper call
By Staff | Feb 3, 2021
To the editor:
This is a response to the letter written by former U.S. Army National Guard member, citizen Thomas Gunderman.
I have researched and can find no place where President Biden said that he was fearful of the U.S. military members assigned there to protect and safeguard him. The Department of Defense, an apolitical organization within the federal government that was carried over from the President Trump administration, worked with the FBI to vet all the National Guard and other military personnel involved with the Inaugural. I think the Administration would be a ship of fools were it not overly cautious and, if some may have been, fearful, that there could be subversives among our good men that might act against the cause of a peaceful turn over of power.
| UPDATED: 18:33, Sat, Jan 30, 2021
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To the editor: As a former U.S. Army National Guard member, I take great exception to the way Joe Biden and his new administration treated and referred to the