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Former KKK Leader Removed From Wallingford VFW Post
The second-highest ranking officer in the local VFW post was recently revealed to have been a Ku Klux Klan leader in the 1990s.
WALLINGFORD, CT — A former Ku Klux Klan leader has been removed as senior vice commander of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Wallingford, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.
The Record-Journal reports Scott E. Palmer was recently revealed to have run a Meriden-Wallingford chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1990s and was convicted of multiple hate crimes against minority groups. Palmer was the second-highest ranking officer of VFW Post 591 in Wallingford as senior vice commander.
Despite initially backing Palmer for what he has done for veterans in his involvement with the local VFW, Michael Del Monaco, commander of Post 591, announced on Facebook Tuesday afternoon that Palmer has been removed from his post.
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“VFW Post 591 will continue to serve local Veterans and the greater Wallingford community with dignity and honor as it has done for over 70 years,” Del Monaco wrote in the post. “There is no room for any prejudice toward race, color, religion, or sexual preference. I have removed Scott E. Palmer as Sr. Vice Commander.”
Read more at the Meriden Record-Journal here and the original report here.
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