As the daughter of a career Air Force officer, and the proud grandmother of an active duty airman, I will never understand how any current member of the military, any veteran, or any family member of a fallen soldier, sailor or airman could possibly support Donald Trump.
This is a person who had five deferments during Vietnam due to “bone spurs”; who jokingly insisted that avoiding STDs in the military was equal to actual military service; who dissed John McCain’s POW status; who insulted Gold Star families; who wouldn’t visit the World War I cemetery at Belleau Woods; who called the military brass in his administration “my” generals – all while insisting that he knew more than they did; who refused to pose with wounded soldiers as it “is not a good look for me”; who would not allow these soldiers in his Fourth of July parade (too depressing); who claimed that the Medal of Freedom was “better” than the Medal of Honor because they are “either in very bad shape, because they’ve been hit so many time by bullets, or they’re dead”; who told Gold Star Gen. John Kelly that he didn’t understand a call to military duty, calling them “suckers and losers.” And finally, a person who used the hallowed ground of Arlington as a campaign stop and photo op – despite warning by a cemetery guard that photos were not allowed.
He has repeatedly belittled and demeaned those who served. He must not become commander in chief.
Susan Elizabeth Kaesler
Hesperus
