Canceling the Washington Post

Dear readers and subscribers,

I do apologize for not writing. You will see a lot more of me beginning today. The summer and early fall were very difficult. We had to do a lot with our home, had contractors in and out, while doing some big time downsizing. Then, just before her 65th birthday she saw her sleep doctor, a pulmonologist on a routine visit and he discovered that she was in Atrial Fibrillation and sent her to the ER immediately. While waiting to be admitted she told the ER Staff of abdominal pain that she was having. They did a CT Scan and found that her appendix had burst. She had emergency surgery where it, dead tissue, and infection were removed in a long and complicated surgery. She remained in the heart hospital 15 days. Her surgeon said if she had not gone in that she could have died within a day or two. The day after she began to feel short of breath and we took her back to the ER yesterday where she was diagnosed as being in Congestive Heart Failure. She will be in hospital until at least Monday.

However, while waiting on oil change, brakes, and state inspection before returning to the hospital, I decided to let you know what was going on and share with you the letter that I sent the Washington Post while canceling my subscription. I was a long term subscriber.

I will write an article later tonight. As for now here is the letter that I sent.

All the best,

Steve

Dear Editorial Board,

I have subscribed to the Post for over a decade. I admired your reporting and your work in investigating the actions of Donald Trump and his allies. I believed in your motto, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” but the action of Mr. Bezos this week to squash your endorsement in the most critical election since 1860 has brought me to the point of reluctantly canceling my subscription. His anticipatory obedience to Trump is a stain on this paper. I am a published historian of the Civil War and the Nazi takeover of Germany. My book, “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond” was published by Potomac Books of the University of Nebraska Press in October 2022.

As far as the Post goes, Mr Bezos’s actions have broken my trust. I appreciate your writers who have either resigned or are speaking out against this, but for now I have to cancel my subscription to the Post. I do hope that you reverse course before the election.

Sincerely,

Steven Dundas, Commander, U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps (Retired) former Assistant Professor, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA.