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- Apr 8, 2017
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Apples and oranges. The general was addressing personnel under his command. If the president were to address any group of American citizens in the way that this general did, regardless of point made, or side taken, people would be offended. The media would castigate and lampoon him. You realize this I am sure but it is much easier to convict on courses not taken.It is the speech we wish the President of the United States had delivered.
Alas, it fell to an Air Force general to remind America of its values. His rank may be lower than the commander in chief's, but Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria spoke with extraordinary passion and eloquence.
Everyone in America should listen to Silveria's words; everyone, including the President.
It happened on Thursday, at the 10th Air Base Wing in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Silveria, the superintendent of the US Air Force Academy, brought together more than 5,000 students, staff and Air Force officers to tell them with electrifying clarity that prejudice, bigotry and intolerance cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.