[Ansteorra-archery] Middleford needs a new archery marshal?

[Sylvrfalcn at aol.com]

  IF, Arcus Majoris Gilbert Ost Wesly had decided to voluntarily step down as 
Middleford's archery marshal, for whatever reason, then I would have been 
equally inclined to voluntarily step up. However, the fact that he's being 
involuntarily pressured out of the office does not at all sit well with me.
  Indeed, I find it nothing short of shameful, to treat in such manner, 
someone  who has done, and is doing, good service for the archery community in this 
kingdom. If such is the fashion in which Ansteorra invests loyalty and 
bestows gratitude, then my spirit is brought low by the realization.
  There are those who assume that the vacated office of archery marshall will 
be quickly filled, but I tell you this in earnest, no archer who keeps faith 
with his own honor would covet an office gained through dishonorable 
enterprise, or to further some obscure political agenda. I do not underestimate the 
archers of this shire when I credit them with honor, integrity, and loyalty.  
Would that such fruit could be harvested elsewhere.
  Small wonder that Middleford has literally been brought to it's knees by 
people outside the shire playing their little games with it. When the people of 
a shire cease to have any say, then truly, it's not their shire any more.  Why 
then, should they continue to support it by becoming opinonless pawns and 
lackeys? Burn me for blasphemy if you like, but if the truth stings, then my 
arrow has found it's proper mark.

In Service,
Robert of Yorkshire