Yesterday Americans honored all the brave men and women who have worn the uniform of the United States military, and the over 1.4 million men and women who wear the uniform today and defend us around the world.
As you read this editorial, a soldier climbs a dusty road in northern Afghanistan. Another soldier is on his hands and knees, somewhere in an alley in Baghdad. A sailor is below decks working on air craft so that they may fly over the sky. Another sailor is in a submarine underneath the polar ice caps, as we speak. A marine is on a bitterly cold hill in the DMZ, facing the enemy in North Korea. And why do they do it?
Why does that young marine recruit get off the bus this afternoon at Parris Island, to the rigors of boot camp?
He does it to protect our rights and freedoms.
He takes an oath to obey and defend and obey Constitution and the laws of land with his very life if necessary.
The Port Chester Village Manager recently should have taken yet another government oath of office now that he has assumed the role of Port Chester Village Clerk.
But all of these oaths that Mr. Williams has taken to follow the laws of the land mean nothing, because at Port Chester Board Of Trustee Meeting After Port Chester Board Of Trustee Meeting he has ignored and refused to fill a Freedom Of Information Request for access to Public Documents.
The Freedom Of Information Request for access to public records is now over five months old.
What would a a soldier huddled in Valley Forge think of Port Chester Village Manager Bill Williams refusing to see that a freedom of information request was not filled for five months?
What would a soldier defending the White House as it burns in the War of 1812 think of Port Chester Village Manager Bill Williams refusing to see that a freedom of information request was not filled for five months?
What would thousands who died in one day in the Gettysburg battlefield think of Port Chester Village Manager Bill Williams refusing to see that a freedom of information request was not filled for five months?
What would the brave men who lie beneath the crosses on Flanders fields think of Port Chester Village Manager Bill Williams refusing to see that a freedom of information request was not filled for five months?
What would a soldier getting off and wading through with the cold surf behind him and the machine guns ahead of him on the beaches of Normandy think of Port Chester Village Manager Bill Williams refusing to see that a freedom of information request was not filled for five months?
What would the brave men that suffered the bitterness of a Korean winter, the steaming jungles of Vietnam, or the hot sands of the Middle East think of Port Chester Village Manager Bill Williams refusing to see that a freedom of information request was not filled for five months?
What would the men and women who are exceptionally brave and incredibly bold as they complete missions in the darkness of a Baghdad night think of Port Chester Village Manager Bill Williams refusing to see that a freedom of information request was not filled for five months?
Perhaps, I should ask my son who suffered through three IED attacks and recently returned from a tour in Iraq come to a future Board Of Trustees Meeting and tell Mr. Williams what he thinks of someone who denies a citizens constitutional rights by refusing to fill a Freedom Of Information request for access to Public Documents.
