Very moving Steve Schmidt tweet thread about bounties on US soldiers

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67. I also lost my uncle, my mother's brother, in WWII. MIA, Battle of Tarawa.

Sixteen months later, her other brother - still in his early teens - drowned in the Mississippi after falling from a boat that he was employed on. My father was blessed to come home, but injured - multiple Purple Hearts, Infantry, Bronze Star, Valor, multiple campaign medals (Pacific). My father-in-law served in Europe.

My father-in-law is buried in Belgium, my Uncle Bud is still MIA, so the families never received the remains. My grandmother lived with us, and until the day she died, every night the porch light was left on, just in case her son Bud might come home. Young Henry had a closed coffin funeral, as it took several days to recover his body from the mighty Mississippi.

All these wars - families endure so much. When will humanity every learn?