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
