On Tuesday, the Colorado Springs Gazette broke the news that officials at the United States Air Force Academy cancelled an upcoming lecture by a Utah author and poet due to critical social media posts about President Donald Trump.

Paisley Rekdal is the bi-racial author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam , a book-length essay that explores the cultural legacies and intergenerational trauma of American veterans and Southeast Asian refugees of the Vietnam War. Her talk at the Air Force Academy was to be an installment of the annual Jannetta Lecture Series, funded by Academy alumnus David Jannetta.

According to the Academy's own website, "the Jannetta Lecture brings to the school respected writers and artists who have contributed to our und

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