Just read your article on the Veterans Day program, Mr. Holliday (“A veteran’s fullstory never told”, Auburn Reporter, Nov. 22).

Having attended several of these USS Indianapolis survivors presentations over the years, and being the son of a survivor myself, all I can say is shame on you.

Perhaps you missed the fact that this was a gift, to you and your community, from an outstanding soldier and gentleman, but you failed to see or appreciate that. Mr. Woolston is living history who traveled at great distance to share his story, which by your own account you did not even stay to hear.

Ms. Roller, whom I have tremendous admiration and respect for, gives freely of her own time and energy to assist these brave men in sharing their tragic story. You should ask these men what they think of her telling of “their” story. It might surprise you. Yet you could not sit respectfully and appreciatively for an hour or so and simply enjoy the gift they brought to your community. So sorry they did not do it the way you thought it should be done … oh, but wait, it wasn’t about you, was it? So shame on you.

I hope you will spend as much time writing your apology as you did in the scathing article you penned.

– Jack Belcher