Greetings from Seattle,
I heard the radio report this morning in which Chamber President Jane Drussel was interviewed about the negative reaction she and your town have received about Bowe Bergdahl’s return.
While I have never been to Hailey, I have spent a lot of time in the internet. While it can be great, it sometimes enables the general sense of anger in our culture today to focus very sharply and very quickly on a single person or place. Only after a news cycle or two (the span of a week, maybe) does that anger typically move on to someone or someplace else.
I am so sorry that angry people on the internet have turned their attention to you and your town at this time. I wish you all and each peace, and the space to welcome your neighbor home. And as they say on the internet, “Don’t let the bozos get you down!”
Kind regards,
digittante