When I was 7 years old on a snowy, icy morning I held my mom's hand

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gopiscrap (24,680 posts)

When I was 7 years old on a snowy, icy morning I held my mom's hand

as we walked to my fathers new gravesite 3 days before Christmas. I sat there staring at my 38 year old father's flag draped coffin. I cried as I heard taps being played, trembled when the rifles sent out their volleys, and gasped in anguished grief as they lowered my father into the cold earth never to be seen again. It is a searing memory and one that is indelible in a child's mind even as he grows to adulthood.

Why did this happen, my father was shot in Vietnam and and died when he came stateside. He was one of those 58,000 US military victims.

But the one good thing was that his country and president honored him. They accorded him the respect he deserved and affirmed and grieved with his survivors.

I find it completely morally reprehensible and an affront to those families that must go through what I went through, but with the callousness of our leader (and mourner in chief) and his sycophant followers. Never had we had a president who is so unfeeling, so callous and so ignorant of what is required to be a leader. This soulless son of a bitch has no clue what it means to sacrifice, to empathise with another's grief. He will never apologize, he will never recognize their pain. A good start would be to lower the flag at a minimum.

I apologize (on behalf of trump) to those families who are feeling the beginning of this life long grief. This president will never apologize My heart is with you. I can identify with the road you are taking.

And to this administration: Shame on you, not only are you uncaring in a time of this immoral war, but you make the pain of the families who paid the ultimate price harder and with deeper scars!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221070253

Oh we go...

[Old n Grumpy]

Time for a pity party

It's a shame all that all those died ans a shame that so many young lives were ruined in what was a useless war that was directed by politicians.

[SVPete]

Here's a real "Mourner in Chief" showing what he is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcmawIWJ_Y

The video is ~4 minutes long, from receiving bodies of soldiers killed in Kabul. The video gives the full time context, with Biden being Biden in the seconds after 1:30.

President Trump, however, was known for visiting recovering service member in Walter Reed without public announcements or notifying the MSM.

gopiscrap is probably indirectly whining that Trump did not serve in the US military. Consider this contrast: the most recent D POTUS to serve in the US military was Jimmy Carter; the most recent R POTUS not to have served in the US military was Herbert Hoover, a Quaker who in WW1 served in the Wilson Administration's US Food Administration, that managed military and civilian food distribution.

More to the point at hand, keep in mind that had LIEden done this, Dems and other Progs would have praised his decisiveness, cunning, and foreign policy genius. The Dems and their MSM-Parrots are angry that Trump did it, and only for that.