"Your daughter never existed"

Pastor Frank Pomeroy was sitting in his car outside his church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, when he noticed a man and a woman approaching the church.  The woman, Jodi Mann, began defacing a poster left for people to sign to express their condolences for the November 5 gun massacre at the church.  You may recall that that massacre left 26 people dead.  One of them was Pastor Pomeroy’s 14-year-old daughter Annabelle.

Pomeroy got out of his car to intervene.  The man, Robert Ussery, then yelled at Pastor Pomeroy, “Your daughter never even existed.  Show me her birth certificate.  Show me anything to say she was here.”

What do you do with a man like that?  Here’s my recommendation.  You punch that bastard right in the face as hard as you can.  If he says “Ow,” you say, “Sorry, that never happened.  You don’t even exist.”

I learned about this incident in a column by Leonard Pitts in the March 11, 2018, issue of the Morning Call, p. 27.