Won’t you need that finger to open another beer while your behind the keyboard bitchin’?
These are people who orgainized the local event you ATTENDED, if you attended.
For heaven's sake! Look at yourself. Your first retort to Navy Vet is to pretend to knowledge you don't have and to be WRONG, but emphatically.
When shown to be wrong, Instead of accounting for the error of your assumption or even acknowledging it, you just press your attack on Navy Vet.
Your argument WAS, these people organized something you did, so get behind them, even if you don't know who they are. When Navy Vet says they didn't organize anything that HE did, you attack him with another argument.
You're not going to get ME to follow these guys that way. This is how the opposition acts.