I am some
disgusted with military veterans that show allegiance to Donald Trump. A man who received five deferments from
service in Vietnam: four rich kid school deferments and a medical deferment
claiming bone spurs.
On a talk
show with Howard Stern, Trump was asked about avoiding venereal disease after
sleeping with numerous women. Trumps
answer was, “It is a dangerous world out there.
It’s scary like Vietnam. It’s my
personal Vietnam. I feel like a great
and very brave soldier.”
1959 to 1975, 58,479 brothers and sisters never
returned from Vietnam. Not a joking matter.
During his
election campaign Trump denigrated John McCain by saying, “He’s not a
hero. He’s a hero because he was
captured. I like people that weren’t
captured.”
McCain spent
five years as a POW. While being interrogated,
with his hands tied behind and hoisted from a ceiling, McCain was beaten,
sustaining a life-long injury. McCain
kept the faith with his fellow POW’s refusing a release when offered, until all
other captives were released in order.
Trump’s
statement “I like people that weren’t captured” is a spit in the face of every
man who ever sacrificed his freedom for this country as a POW.
This
cowardly draft dodger, during his campaign, disparaged a Gold Star family that
gave their son to the ranks of brave heroes that have served this country and
will never return.
Now Trump
attacks a military man who wears the purple ribbon signifying a soldier who has
bled for this country – a man whose brothers all served in the arm forces of
the United States.
This
bloviated, bellicose coward, who was designated Commander in Chief by a flawed Electoral
College after losing the election by three million votes – the same coward that
quaked in fear when the aircraft lights were turned off prior to landing at his
one visit to troops in a war zone; has no claim to allegiance from military veterans.
the Ol'Buzzard
retired Navy
Vietnam vet
Amen, brother. USN (1965-68)
ReplyDeleteI have been reading "A Warning". According to the author of the book, the Pentagon officials despise that POS. They make it look like they are on his side but they would shoot him in the face if given the chance.
ReplyDeleteOORAH USMC(1969-72)
ReplyDeleteI've never understood why any veteran supports Republicans. Trump is just the most blatant of the bunch. How many troops died because Nixon had Kissinger sabotage the Paris peace talks? How many others have suffered because the Republicans cut funding or refuse to fund programs that would help them? The Republicans are masters of the suck and stab: talk loudly and publicly about supporting the troops while quietly stabbing them in the back by refusing to pass legislation that would actually make a difference.
ReplyDeleteThe draft dodging doesn't bother me too much (altho I hate draft dodgers that become war-mongers when they are too fucking old to serve), what bothers me the most is the shit he is doing now to the troops and vets. Claims he's raising money for vets and then steals the money and uses it for himself, taking funding from improvements for military bases and using it on his fucking useless border wall...etc.
ReplyDeleteBut what really takes the fucking cake is the pardoning of war criminals and reinstating their rank after they have been tried and convicted!
USAF '66-'70 With a tour at Dow Airplane Patch, Bangor, ME
Well written! From one Vietnam veteran (who was drafted) to another Vietnam veteran
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