![]() Anthony Girdano who spent 2 ½ years in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea during the Korean War. We were lucky to have returned to us current Hudson resident U.S. Rosato and John Darlington Peace, III remain missing in action in Vietnam. A total of 3,687 of those Americans are from Ohio. There are over 82,000 Americans who remain missing in action from World War II to the present. It also reminds us to remember the sacrifices of families who must courageously face each day without knowing the fate of their loved ones. 19, a Missing Man Table was displayed in Johnny’s to honor those Americans who were prisoners of war and have returned and to remember and never forget those who have not returned. Visit the Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) at Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.American Legion Lee-Bishop Post 464 and the American Legion Auxiliary-Unit 464 would like to thank Johnny’s Diner in Hudson for helping them commemorate National POW/MIA Recognition Day on Friday, Sept. ©2021 the Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) The audio of what Kemter said can still be heard during the video because there was a shotgun microphone on HCTV’s video camera.ĭuring the two minutes when the microphone was turned down, the recording of the program on HCTV includes a disclaimer stating “Lapse in sound not fault of Stokes & Sound Inc. He continues speaking, and after about two minutes, the microphone comes back on and stays on for the remainder of the speech. Kemter looks at the crowd, smiles and explains that this was why he had asked attendees to move closer when he opened his speech. When Kemter notices members of the crowd saying that they can’t hear him, he taps the microphone, looks at someone off-camera and says “A.J., mic,” referring to Stokes. In the video of the program that appears on the HCTV website, Kemter’s microphone stops working in the middle of his speech. Video shows dropoff in sound, brief interruption of speech Kemter said he did not speak with Suchan or Garrison after the ceremony. After the event, Stokes “told me it was not a malfunction.” When his microphone was turned down, Kemter said he thought there was a problem with the equipment. Cindy and Jim were the ones that turned your microphone off.” He noted he’s handled the sound engineering for the event since the late 1960s and has his own company, Stokes Sound & Video Inc.Īfter the ceremony, Stokes said he apologized to Kemter about the loss in audio, but also told him “I had nothing to do with that. Suchan said that Stokes was “totally blameless.” He said he was “very upset” about what happened and hoped he was not being blamed. “I would’ve never done something like that.” Stokes said Suchan and Garrison were both “very adamant” about turning off Kemter’s microphone. When reached by phone Wednesday, Garrison declined to say whether he turned down the microphone and said he had “nothing to add” regarding the situation. He said it was Garrison who turned down the audio and then turned it back up a short time later. Stokes confirmed his refusal and that he did point to the knob. She said Stokes refused to do it himself, but pointed to the knob that controlled the microphone. Stokes, the event’s audio engineer, to turn off Kemter’s microphone. ![]() Kemter said he showed the text of the speech to a Hudson public official, who advised him to leave the speech intact.Īudio engineer refuses instruction to mute equipmentĪt a certain point in Kemter’s speech, Suchan said she asked A.J. “I didn’t have time to sit down and rewrite another speech,” Kemter said. Kemter said he did not see any text highlighted - and with the ceremony less than 24 hours away, he did not reply again. When he received an email back from the organizer Sunday evening, the message stated that the parts to be removed were highlighted. Cindy Suchan, chair of the Memorial Day parade committee and president of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary, said it was either her or Jim Garrison, adjutant of the American Legion Post 464. Kemter declined to share why the organizer asked him to remove this part, but said he asked the organizer to specify what portions they wanted to have excluded. During those two minutes, Kemter is heard discussing how former slaves and freed Black men shortly after the Civil War exhumed the remains of more than 200 Union soldiers who died in battle in Charleston and gave them “a proper burial.”Ībout three days before the ceremony, Kemter said, he was emailed by an event organizer (whom he declined to name) asking him to remove a part of his speech dealing with Black Americans’ role in an early Memorial Day-type of ceremony. Suchan declined to say which part she wanted excluded, but confirmed the two minutes when Kemter’s microphone was turned off were part of what she asked him to exclude. “We asked him to modify his speech and he chose not to do that,” said Suchan.
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