Calls mount to apologize, after urban-patrol exercises on downtown streets were canceled by mayor [View All]

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Calls mount for mayor to apologize as order to cancel training draws fire across nation

By IGNAZIO MESSINA
BLADE STAFF WRITER


The pressure was on yesterday for Toledo's Carty Finkbeiner to apologize to a company of U.S. Marine Corps Reservists whose weekend urban-patrol exercises on downtown streets were canceled by the mayor.

Five city councilmen, one of whom is a former Marine, called the order an embarrassment and demanded the mayor apologize - similar to calls from hundreds of people locally and on Internet blogs across the nation.

Former Marine and Vietnam War veteran John Schaub, 62, the owner of Holland Dry Cleaners in western Lucas County, said news of the mayor's order brought tears to his eyes.

"I'm not an emotional guy, but after I put the newspaper down, it just really hit me," Mr. Schaub said.


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