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Former journalist pays tribute to those slain

July 6, 2018

I am a proud and card-carrying (as poor Donald Trump once said) "Enemy Of The People," which means I worked as a journalist.

There was Extra Sunday magazine for the Baltimore News American; and founding The Paper, Baltimore's first free alternative paper; and 16 years as editor and general manager at Baltimore Magazine, where the Annapolis Capital Gazette was our "parent/ partner" company.

(Coming back on a troopship from two years in the Army in Germany in 1964, I edited and mimeographed the daily USS Simon Bolivar Buckner Banner. Talk about a captive audience....)

I am writing on this Fourth of July celebration in honor of the five Annapolis journalists who died in offices where I occasionally did work.

And I am writing to salute the Cape Gazette in all its manifestations, and so many other publications, for doing the often gritty and if not argued-over, unpraised work of community journalism.

None of us, I think, ever asked for hero status. But none of us, I know, deserved being gunned down for doing the jobs we loved.

Peace, people.

Stan Heuisler
Rehoboth Beach

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