Sarah Trafton reports for Columbia-Greene Media that Tom Andreassen, the post commander of the Honeyford Memorial Post 110, turned the Aug. 22 opening ceremony for the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall into a partisan witch hunt. Andreassen told the audience to be careful of who they voted for, as they needed, he said, to keep socialists and communists out of government. Andreassen said he would “fight tooth and nail” to make sure the veterans memorialized on the wall didn’t die for nothing, and closing with “God bless our president.” John Lissandrello of Palenville took issue with the insertion of politics at the ceremony. “It is a golden rule that at that event — a solemn event on sacred ground — there is no place for politics,” Lissandrello said. “Catskill and Greene County decided to have a master of ceremonies that tried to have a Trump rally and turn it into a political event.... I was so enraged that I got up and walked out.” The wall manager, Richard Russo, claimed there has been many others upset too. “I have had three or four phone calls and 15 emails about the speaker,” he said. “I have never gotten this type of feedback before. A lot of people are not happy.” Read more about this story at HudsonValley360.com.