HUDSON - What at first glance looked like a brief acoustic disturbance at Monday's National Day of Mourning ceremony at Markillie Cemetery turned out to be anything but easy. The organizers of the ceremony switched off the microphone just as the keynote speaker at the event, retired Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter, began telling stories of freed black slaves and deceased soldiers since the end of the Civil War. In the middle of Kemter's 11-minute speech at the ceremony, held at a cemetery in Hudson, North Carolina, the microphone was switched off for about two minutes. The ceremony organizer Cindy Suchan confirmed to the Akron Beacon Journal that she and co-founder Jim Garrison turned the microphone off for part of the speech, but did not say why. Suchan, chairwoman of Memorial Day Parade Committee and President of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary, said she turned on the audio with garrison and aide of the American Legion, Lee Bishop of Post 464. She would not say which part of Kemter's speech she wanted to take down, but confirmed that there were two minutes when Kemter's microphone was turned off and two minutes when it was turned back on. The day after the ceremony, Suchan said she reviewed the speech and asked Kemter to remove some parts. Kemter refused to say why the organizer, who he did not want to name, asked him to remove portions of his speech that addressed the role of black Americans in previous ceremonies such as Memorial Day, but said he had asked the organizer to specify the portions she wanted to exclude. The veterans' microphone was switched off Monday just as he began discussing the role of freed slaves in honoring Union soldiers and the origins of Memorial Day. It happened when Kemter began discussing newspaper clippings showing that free blacks were among the first to celebrate Memorial Day after the Confederate surrender. He said he was approached at the event by an irate sound engineer who told him that one of the two organizers had turned off the veteran's microphone. He walked off stage and held the microphone for the first thirty minutes after it was posted. He said in his speech he included the story because he wanted to share the story of where Memorial Day came from. Organizers of the ceremony said part of his speech was not relevant to the program's theme of honoring the city's veterans. Organizers of a memorial service switched off the microphone when a former U.S. Army officer began talking about freeing black slaves in honor of fallen Civil War soldiers. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, retired Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter was the keynote speaker at the ceremony in Ohio. Kemter said he included the story in his speech because he wanted to share the genesis of the National Day of Mourning. The American Legion Department of Ohio is investigating an incident on Memorial Day in which a veteran's microphone was silenced as he spoke about the role former slaves played in founding the holiday. The part of Lieutenant. Col. Barnard Kemters's voice was muted after his microphone was turned off on Memorial Day in Hudson, Ohio last week. According to a report in the Akron Beacon Journal, organizers of the ceremony switched off the veterans "microphone about two minutes after Lt. Gen. Barnes Kemters" keynote address. Organizers of a memorial service switched off loudspeakers and microphones as a former U.S. Army officer began talking about freeing black slaves and honoring fallen soldiers from the Civil War. Retired Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter thought it was an acoustic glitch, but it was anything but a glitch. He spoke of freed slaves who were among the first to be honored for their service in the war. 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