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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQ: What's more disrepectful than a president calling dead vets "suckers"??
A: checking his watch during the transfer of remains
Fathers of Two U.S. Service Members Killed in Kabul Speak With Hannity, Say Biden Was Disrespectful at Dignified Transfer
It didnt go well. He talked a bit more about his own son then he did my son, and that didnt sit well with me, Schmitz added.
Taylor got emotional as he said his son and all the others who served and sacrificed are heroes. They died with her brothers and their sisters right next to them doing exactly what they all wanted to do. And that is defending this country.
He did not meet with Biden because we didnt want him anywhere near us.
Taylor told Hannity the president showed disrespect by checking his watch during the dignified transfer of remains on Sunday. Schmitz expressed similar sentiments.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fathers-of-two-u-s-service-members-killed-in-kabul-speak-with-hannity-say-biden-was-disrespectful-at-dignified-transfer/
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)Trump called the son of my friend a "sucker," a young man who died in Afghanistan five years ago due to a roadside bomb. He was 25.
And Trump called my friend, the mother of the soldier, a "sucker" for allowing her son to join the Army and to protect his troop and Afghani civilians.
That's enough for me.
Maeve
(42,224 posts)It was "wrong" not because it was actually that terrible, but because it was done by a person they define as "wrong"
ChazII
(6,198 posts)It didnt go well. He talked a bit more about his own son then he did my son, and that didnt sit well with me, Schmitz added.
I heard that on one of the shows yesterday. The sentence above came from the article linked to the OP.
spanone
(135,635 posts)madaboutharry
(40,152 posts)What I believe is that these fathers do not respect Biden and are Trump supporters who would find fault no matter what Biden did or said.
This is where we are as a country. The divide is so deep that even in an event such as this, the death of ones own child, there is a need to refuse even the condolences offered by someone whose political party you reject.
I pity these fathers and there inability to put politics aside even for a few hours. I have no doubt that Biden attempted to share that he knows their pain, their sense of loss, the black hole that will forever live inside them. It is a shame they couldnt understand that.
CatWoman
(79,283 posts)agree on all counts.
you can't "make" people like you.
electric_blue68
(14,609 posts)...the basic outline of their pain.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Lucian K. Truscott observed:
All this is just more willful ignorance contained within his usual fog of lies. But it was his description of the grief of families meeting the bodies of their dead at Dover Air Force Base that was most illustrative of his abject disdain for human life. They scream, like Ive never seen anything before. Theyll break through military barriers. Theyll run to the coffin and jump on top of the coffin. Crying mothers and wives. Crying desperately.
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/19/america-is-being-held-hostage-by-a-bloody-madman-and-hes-in-the-white-house/
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Jon Voight, like it was after dinner entertainment. Dont know if it was cleared with families.
Disgusting.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7713905/Donald-Melania-Trump-honor-soldiers-killed-helicopter-crash-Afghanistan.html
doc03
(35,148 posts)mine. But he wouldn't meet with him to talk about his loss.