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Lieutenant Colonel Barnard Kemter will deliver his speech at an event next week
The 77-year-old s mic was cut off at a Memorial Day event in Ohio when he started to talk about the role freed slaves played in the founding of the holiday
Officials initially defended the action but two organizers have since resigned
Kemter will deliver the speech again at Buckeye Boys State, an annual gathering organized by the American Legion to teach young men about government
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A retired U.S. Army officer whose speech about freed Black slaves honoring fallen Civil War soldiers was censored by organizers of a Memorial Day ceremony will get another chance to deliver it.
The American Legion Department of Ohio said it has invited retired Army Lt. Col.
Barnard Kemter to speak next week at the organization’s Buckeye Boys State, an annual gathering that teaches young men about government.
Kemter was speaking at a Memorial Day event hosted by a local American Legion post in northeastern Ohio when his microphone was turned off as he talked about the role Black people played in how Memorial Day began.