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Tom Haviland's Journey

How his email to the Air Force 3-star general got him fired

Laura Kasner

Apr 28, 2025

 

I hope my readers find Tom Haviland’s story as inspirational as I do.

 

For new readers, you can read about my connection to Tom here.

 

Tom, having the courage of his convictions sent an email to an Air Force 3-star general on October 13, 2021. He copied all 30,000 people that worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This email got him immediately fired from his $165,000 a year job as an independent contractor.

 

To My WPAFB, AFMC, and ACC Coworkers,

 

I write this and provide the attached document as encouragement to you. I want you to know that “you are not alone” if you feel that you have been wronged by not being allowed to make your own decision on whether to get the Covid-19 vaccines or not. The “mandate” is flat out wrong. The data does not support it, and it is also morally wrong. It is sinister of our government to insist that you get the vaccine or else lose your job and other civil rights.

 

I understand that many of you are “between a rock and a hard place.” You don’t want to get the vaccine, but you feel that you are in no position to say “no” because you really need your job to support you and your family. However, there comes a point when we need to make a stand against tyranny. Telling you that you MUST inject an experimental vaccine into your body is about as bad as it gets.

 

I encourage all of you to dig deep inside you and find that courage that is within all of us. I cannot make your decision for you, and I cannot guarantee that we will win. But I do know that if enough of us stand, then they will rescind this awful mandate. Some in leadership have tried to give the impression that almost everyone has no problems getting the vaccine and that you are “the odd ball out” if you are vaccine hesitant. Let me tell you right now that is the furthest thing from the truth.

 

How do I know this? Some of you at WPAFB may have seen me lately. I am the guy that spent my two-week vacation in September and the first two weekends in October at the stoplight on Fairfield Road by the Red Lobster just off I-675, holding the sign saying “NO VAX MANDATE.” For the eighteen days (over 100 hours) that I have been out there, I estimate that I have watched over 100,000 cars go by me.

 

Sure, many of the cars don’t do anything, and about 1% will give me a “middle finger” or say “F you.” But a significant number, about 20%, cheer wildly, honk their horns, or give me a “thumbs up.”

 

What is interesting is to see that when most of the cars are stopped at the light awaiting their turn to go, when the first car starts to honk it gives courage to the other drivers to start honking their horns. Soon, many cars are letting the entire intersection know exactly how they feel about this rotten mandate. Furthermore, every single day that I have been there, people (including doctors, nurses, teachers, clergy, firemen, etc.) have taken the time to park their car and walk down to the corner to shake my hand or offer me a bottle of water.

 

I know that the stated work policy of “not asking people about their vaccination status” has been to protect your medical privacy. But I think that it has also had the consequence of “isolating” each one of us so that we can never talk to our fellow coworkers about how we really feel about things like masks, social distancing, and vaccine mandates. We were never really allowed to talk about these things together, so we never really had the opportunity to start “honking our horns together” if we disagreed with any policy.

 

Again, for those of you who despise this vaccine mandate, I want you to know that you are not alone. As for me, I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

 

Sincerely,

 

Tom Haviland (20 Year USAF Veteran, 16 Year Defense Contractor)

 

P.S. For Lt Gen Schaefer: You should be ashamed of yourself. You failed us. Instead of fighting for our right to choose for ourselves whether to get injected with an experimental vaccine, you spent your time trying to “guilt” us who are unvaccinated into getting the vaccine. Shame on you.

 

https://laurakasner.substack.com/p/tom-havilands-journey