Wreaths
From: (name withheld)
Subject: Wreaths
Date: December 14, 2021 at 3:08:03 PM MST
To: [email protected]
Of all the small minded activities in America, your group seems to be trying hard to be the most petty and childish. Atheism can be a personal way to live, but whining about every little thing which crosses into your narrow vision is not a good example of what should be a philosophy in which one believes the divine to be beneath one. It sounds more like you are angry with the God who is, and this is your way of lashing out and vomiting out your bile. The only other reason for this infantile behavior is to make money from others less able to think. Either way, you are a achieving nothing of note, nothing to bring progress, and nothing to humanity. Some people are small by birth, misadventure, and some have small hearts, with no ability to rise above being mean and unimportant. I speak of you.
(name withheld)
Response from MRFF Board Member John Compere
On Dec 15, 2021, at 12:38 PM, John Compere wrote:
Your sanctimonious sermonizing reflects only on yourself & reveals only your lack of knowledge regarding the religious freedom rights of military families who do not want a religious organization to which they do not belong or support profiting, promoting its religion & marketing itself by presumptuously putting its religious wreaths on the graves of their deceased military veterans without permission. Those families consider it uninvited & unwanted intrusions on the personal burial sites of their deceased loved ones.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (composed of 85% Christians) represents, when requested, the religious freedom rights of those families to object & prevent what they believe to be thoughtless trespasses on the graves of their family members. We do so because we respect their wishes & the religious organization responsible for the religious wreaths does not.
Brigadier General John Compere, US Army (Retired)Disabled American Veteran (Vietnam Era)Board Member, Military Religious Freedom Foundation