A response to Catholic League president William Donohue from ret. USAF Col. Dick Klass

Dear Mr. Donohue,
I find your support for the Family Research Council’s ill-informed and unprincipled attack on the work of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation appalling. And your personal attacks on the MRFF founder, Mikey Weinstein are,… well. unchristian.
I was raised Catholic and have attended Mass in the highest cathedrals of Europe and America and under a tent in the red mud of Khe Sanh, Vietnam. I have served my nation through 200 air combat missions for which I now wear the Silver Star and Purple Heart.  I earned two graduate degrees from Oxford University, England that I attended as  a Rhodes Scholar where the Catholic Chaplain had been awarded the Victoria Cross for combat in North Africa.
I understand real war and recognize phony political wars used to bilk the innocent out of hard-earned funds. And that is what the FRC and your effort is all about. As a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and one of the earliest supporters of MRFF, I can attest to the extremely serious threat unconstitutional proselytizing presents in today’s military. By contrast, any anti-Catholic bias is trivial., and it is not coming from MRFF.
I support MRFF and its efforts to defend the constitutional rights of our servicemen. If you think their efforts impinge on anyone’s constitutional rights, I suggest you think again.
Richard L. Klass
Colonel, USAF (retired)