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I have lived almost all of my 57 years in Murfreesboro. My mother’s family goes back five generations in Rutherford County. I attended Campus School, Central High School, MTSU and am a Vanderbilt University Law School-educated attorney engaged in private practice in Murfreesboro. I am the father of a current MTSU student. I write all of that so you will have some idea of the degree to which I, and my family, are invested in Murfreesboro and Rutherford County.
Republican State House member Rick Womick’s anti-Muslim comments at the anti-Shariah conference in Nashville on Nov. 13 are appallingly anti-American. His remarks cast denigrating aspersions on the thousands of Muslims, since the Revolution, who have died in the service of this great country, as well as those who serve this very day. Arlington National Cemetery has many graves of those noble and honorable … and MUSLIM … men and women who have died fighting for the freedoms we all, including Mr. Womick, enjoy in this land.
