An organizer of a Memorial Day event in Hudson, Ohio, cut off a 77-year-old military veteran’s microphone as he began discussing the Black community's significance to Memorial Day.  Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter, the event’s keynote speaker, was about midway through his speech when his microphone stopped functioning, The Akron Beacon Journal reports . At first, it was assumed that the error was innocuous, but an organizer of the event confirmed that it was anything but. According to a written draft of the speech obtained by The Journal, Kemter was elaborating on the origins of what was once called Decoration Day, where freed Black people paid their respects to fallen soldiers by decorating their grave sites, before his mic was muted. According to Time, more than 10,000 Black people partook in the inaugural Memorial Day ritual.  “More importantly than whether Charleston’s Decoration Day was the first, is the attention Charleston’s Black community paid to the nearly 260 Union...