Sue A. Hoffman: Historian with a Mission
As I was searching for information on Sue A. Hoffman, the primary resource for much of the information on the Fraternal Order of Eagles’ Ten Commandments Project, I came across some information about her in a Washington Post article from 2004 by staff writer Bill Broadway, “A New Judgment Day For Decalogue Displays: As Issue Nears High Court, Argument Develops Over Differing Versions of Ten Commandments,” which states:
The monument on statehouse grounds in Austin has been in place since 1961, one of as many as 200 monoliths donated from the 1950s through mid-1980s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, said Sue Hoffman, a retired schoolteacher in Washington state who has researched the history of the Eagles’ placement of monuments nationwide.
I contacted Broadway, inquiring about any information on Hoffman’s credibility, and he forwarded me her story and some parts of her [now published] book project, In Search of God and the Ten Commandments: One Person's Journey to Preserve a Small Part of America's God-given Values and Freedoms.
Reproduced on the following page is Sue A. Hoffman’s personal account of how she got involved in the project:
