On Tuesday, the Colorado Springs Gazette broke the news that officials at the United States Air Force Academy cancelled an upcoming lecture by a Utah author and poet due to critical social media posts about President Donald Trump. Paisley Rekdal is the bi-racial author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, a book-length essay that explores the cultural legacies and intergenerational trauma of American veterans and Southeast Asian refugees of the Vietnam War. Her talk at the Air Force Academy was to be an installment of the annual Jannetta Lecture Series, funded by Academy alumnus David Jannetta. “When I spoke to them on the phone, they said that a supervisor had done some research on me and found some things he didn’t like,” Rekdal tells Westword. “They never told me exactly what it was.” But she says Jannetta and the Gazette both told her the cancellation was specifically due to posts that were critical of President Donald Trump. On her Fa...