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BRONX TIMES REPORTER,64 OCTOBER 9-15, 2020 BTR
BY KORONY AL POST 253
The “Christian Engeldrum
Support The Troops Care
Package Program” will be able
to ship its holiday boxes to our
troops.
We were so fortunate to
have a special member of our
community who is running for
Congress, John Cummings,
step up to the plate and help us
with our boxes to the troops.
Contacts to our local elected
offi cials had not brought about
any help or change with the
postage situation. This became
a problem with the cost
of postage to ship each box,
which is approximately $20
each. Since COVID-19, we were
not able to do our annual fundraiser
and neither can Brewski’s
Bar, which also helps us
with their fundraiser. Our
hopes to get 100 boxes shipped
out this holiday season to our
men and women serving overseas
seemed dim.
John, who had volunteered
his time to help at Brewski’s
event, heard our story and
not only donated the funds
needed to ship the boxes but
also made us a promise that if
he is elected, his fi rst piece of
legislation to Congress would
be to make the shipping to our
military free for those serving
overseas. We know it will be a
challenge, but he listened and
responded to our needs and
the needs of future shipments
to our military. That’s all we
could ask for.
Thank you,
From the “Support The
Troops” team
BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
Is the American Left splitting
the nation apart? The evidence
is mounting in a truly
worrisome manner.
The progressive attitude
that rejects any affi nity with
fellow Americans that have
different perspectives has
been growing for some time.
Barack Obama’s contemptuous
description of those who
didn’t agree with him as people
“clinging to their bibles
and guns” was followed up
by Hillary Clinton’s labeling
of conservatives as “deplorables.
”
New York’s acerbic Governor
Andrew Cuomo recently
stated that if President Trump
decided to return to his home
state of New York he would require
an “army” to do so. Infamously,
Cuomo avoided using
the Trump-provided U.S.S.
Comfort hospital ship for non-
COVID patients. His miscues
in placing COVID patients in
nursing homes was a move
that resulted in massive unnecessary
deaths.
Republican-elected offi -
cials have been threatened,
attacked and shot. Rep. Maxine
Waters instructs her followers
to assault presidential
cabinet members in public
places. Individuals have been
threatened and beaten merely
for wearing “MAGA” apparel
expressing support for the incumbent
president. Despite
the blatant, extensive, prolonged
and nationwide employment
of large-scale violence,
leftist groups such as
Antifa and Black Lives Matter
continue to be condoned
and even celebrated by major
leftist politicians. At the same
time, key progressive groups
urge the elimination of the
Department of Homeland Security
and the defunding of
local police forces. In many
major cities, hardened criminals
are set free without bail,
or released from prison citing
COVID as an excuse. Left-wing
governors have stretched the
limits of their power in an effort
to give felons who have
served their time the vote.
Leftists across the nation
seek to rewrite American history
in an effort to divorce
those who point to the great
accomplishments of the past
from those who only dwell
only on the misdeeds. In the
nation’s capital, a mayoral
task force seeks the removal
of America’s foundational
monuments, including the
Washington Monument, the
Jefferson Memorial, and tributes
to Benjamin Franklin
and National Anthem author
Francis Scott Key.
A particular target of
the secessionist progressive
crowd has been adherents of
traditional religion. Those
faithful to traditional religions
are repeatedly attacked.
Keith Ellison, former vice
chair of the Democratic National
Committee, has strong
ties to anti-Semitism. The
Cision Press Wire reports that
“Joel Chernoff, Executive Director
of AIA said, “For the
fi rst time in US history, there
is danger that anti-Semitism
will become normalized and
legitimized in US politics via
the Democratic Party and a
DNC controlled Congress.”
Ashley McGuire, writing
in Real Clear Religion reports
that “Democrats just keep
outdoing themselves. In the
domain of anti-Catholic bigotry,
that is. Until recently, it
was hard to believe that they
could be any more anti-Catholic
then they were after the
Amy Coney Barrett kerfuffl
e, in which Senators Feinstein
(D-CA) and Durbin (DIL)
questioned whether Coney
Barrett’s Catholic faith should
disqualify her from a circuit
court judgeship.”
The separatist trend may
soon reach a crisis point as
November rapidly approaches.
Hillary Clinton has advised
Biden to not concede the
election “under any circumstances,”
while Democrats oppose
any attempt to provide
ballot security as well as the
use of mail-in ballots and “ballot
harvesting” schemes that
are wide open to fraudulent
use. Former Secretary of State
John Kerry urges violence in
the streets if President Trump
wins reelection.
CIVIC CENTER
COMACTA
BY TONY SALIMBENE
Hope everyone is well and
hanging in as best as possible.
Our next regular Post 253 meeting
for all units will be the 3rd Sunday
in October at Throggs Neck Memorial
Post 1456. Mark your calendars.
That’s 10:30 a.m. coffee, 11
a.m. meeting and 12 noon lunch.
Thanks, Commander Joe
and staff for the hospitality during
these trying times. Don’t forget
masks and social distancing.
Don’t forget your team members
needing assistance.
Until next time: “A true terror
is to wake up to fi nd your high
school class is running the
country,” Kurt Vonnegut.
CIVIC CENTER
Korony AL Post 253
From left: John Cummings, Cathy Praino (Aunt Cathy), Judy Lanci, Theodore
Korony American Legion Unit President and Gene DeFrancis, Theodore
Korony American Legion Post Commander
Photo courtesy of Judy Lanci
CIVIC CENTER
Korony AL Post 253
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