Thursday, October 22, 2020

Voting, Veterans? Someone asked "Why does the U.S. government place value on finding soldiers who were missing in action?"

My dad was a veteran of the Korean War. He was proud of his service and I'm proud of his service. I'm also very proud of all of my friends and relatives who served and still serve.
   Last month, a report by 3 different reliable news sources revealed that  D.T. doesn't understand why the government cares about finding the bodies of soldiers who were killed in action and are missing. He also said he didn't want disabled veterans in military parades because "no one wants to see that." 
Think about those things.
   Here's that part of the article from Politico and click here to read the full article:

Trump Scrambles to Recover from  Report he called fallen troops ‘losers’
Politico, Sept. 4, 2020

Pres. Trump was mystified as to why the U.S. government placed value on finding soldiers who were missing in action because he believed “they had performed poorly and gotten caught and deserved what they got,” according to the Washington Post.

The Atlantic’s account was subsequently corroborated in part by news outlets including The Associated Press and The Washington Post, which reported other explosive allegations about the president’s perception of the nation’s military.

Duckworth homed in on another detail from The Atlantic’s report: the president’s request during a 2018 White House planning meeting for a military parade that the celebratory event not include wounded veterans such as amputees. “Nobody wants to see that,” Trump allegedly said.

Duckworth insisted that Trump’s remarks do not “diminish the sacrifices of wounded soldiers who gave up their limbs like I did for all Americans, including him.”

“The American people know that no one should be ashamed of a disability and that wounded warriors should be honored instead of hidden from view. I’d take my wheelchair and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day,” she said, referring to the medical exemption that granted Trump a deferment from being drafted into military service during the Vietnam War.

Trump was mystified as to why the U.S. government placed value on finding soldiers who were missing in action because he believed “they had performed poorly and gotten caught and deserved what they got,” according to the Washington Post.

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