News stories here and here about the Commission’s latest meetings.
An excerpt from one:
Military veteran Stan Snow captivated the audience with his storytelling ability, sharing the name of the bomb squadron he was a part of in 1954: The Devil’s Own Grim Reapers.
The name might be offensive, Snow said, but when the B-52s shielded Americans from their enemies, people would be happy.
Snow decried political correctness, and praised the warrior spirit, and in the end, he pleaded.
“Please, please, don’t take it away from them,” Snow said.
There was clearly an age gap in the opinions of the roughly 60 audience members in attendance. The younger ones, save for a little girl who spoke first, fell strongly in the camp of tossing the mascot — or, at the very least, reaching out to tribes to make Eaton’s depiction more accurate and authentic and less of a caricature.
The older audience members leaned more toward tradition, keeping a logo that has been a part of Eaton since 1966.
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