This is in no way a political decision. I simply do not feel it is appropriate to honor a person whose epitaph of government service was to have voted against or blocked every civil rights issue that came before the US Congress. His doctrine of negativity, hate, and prejudice cost North Carolina and our nation much that we may never regain

—L.F. Eason, who was forced to resign from his 29-year position at the the NC Standards Laboratory rather than fly flags at half mast. Even in death, that asshole Helms is ruining people’s lives.