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