Kurt Eichenwald reminding Americans what Stars and Stripes is all about.
Kurt Eichenwald
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Follow this thread to understand further Trump's contempt for our military and how he denigrates everything our troops hold dear -including the lives of their comrades in arm who have bounties on their heads.
Trump now orders @starsandstripes closed. The first issue from.../1
...February 8, 1918 was put out for our boys fighting in WW1. There was another paper with the same name in the Civil War, but the WW1 version is the @starsandstripes we know today.
General Jack Pershing - AEF commander on the Western Front, wrote this on page 1 of issue 1:.../2
...Pershing's key words were at the end of his introduction of @starsandstripes to the troops. As Pershing says, it is THE TROOPs' paper, not ours, and certainly not the paper of Donald Trump the draft-dodger.../3
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