Terry Frei of the Denver Post fired for tweet about Japanese Indy 500 winner

Who was Terry Frei covering that race for?

 

The Italians were just the dorky guy in the Axis entourage.

 

Again, the Italy angle is crazy and has zilch to do with any of this.

 

This may now officially be the dumbest debate I've had on here.

 

OK, a couple of things. 1. If Frei didn't think this tweet could get him in trouble, he was very foolish. 2. No excuses. War ended 72 years ago. I don't care if his dad helped lift the flag on Mount Suribachi. It's history now. Japan's been an American ally and member in good standing of the international community as long as Frei's been alive. I'm his boss, he doesn't get fired, although anything short of that could happen. But he's got no kick coming. Thoughtless insult to a person who wasn't born until 1977!

 

There's nothing good about someone losing his or her job. That's the bottom line.

 

Depends on why they lose their job. In this case, I agree. But were you upset when Jerry Sandusky lost his job?

 

That says way more about you than me.

I am not willing to play thought police to that degree, and that seems reasonable to me.

 

I think you're asking the wrong board member that.

 

Am I?

 

Guy had those boys ready to play on Saturdays.

 

I've known Marines who fought in the Pacific Theater. And they had nothing good to say - savages, Nips, etc. They hated them because they fought to the death, banzai, suicidal. No Quarter. It was brutal.

And while I can see what's wrong with what Terry did, I also feel that he was viscerally close to his veteran father and chose a very poor way to let that connectedness to his father and his past leak out in a Tweet. War is hell, and the Pacific especially so.

And there were many, many vets who were happy the A-bombs ended the war, because invading the Home Islands really could have been like the Vietnam War - a war of attrition until one side fatigued on the Homefront.

Yes, it's 72 years later, but some recent generations are still very connected to WW2 and what their parents went through, and I can't fault them for that. I'm actually glad some people still give a damn about what their parents went through in WW2.

It's just a shame this whole episode turned out the way it did.