Memorial services were held Sunday in Rochester, New Hampshire, to remember American journalist James Foley, who was brutally beheaded by an ISIS terrorist. CNS News reports: The memorial mass for James Foley took place Sunday at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Foley’s hometown. Connie Hammond, an administrative assistant at Holy Rosary, told CNSNews that no White House officials were in attendance. “There was nobody that represented the White House,” Hammond said, adding that all of the dignitaries in attendance called ahead except for one and that all of them sat together. New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan was in attendance, along with three other Granite State politicians. While the White House didn’t make time to send any staffers to Foley’s memorial service, it did make time to send three of its officials to the service of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. The deaths of James Foley and Michael Brown are both tragedies. And there is nothing wrong with the Obama administration sending aides to pay condolences at Michael Brown’s funeral. But many felt that the White House should have sent officials to Foley’s funeral as well:
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:45:30 +0000
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