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How can veterans, families support Donald Trump?

| October 8, 2024 1:00 AM

An employee at Arlington National Cemetery was shoved by Trump staffers attempting to exploit a respectful/solemn ceremony for campaign propaganda. My aunt, an “Arlington Lady,” for 34 years knows the assaulted woman. Protocol is explained beforehand and strictly followed. 

Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to someone who gave him $170 million, saying “… the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor … civilian version … better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor … soldiers … They’re … in … bad shape … or … dead.” 

Trump belittled a slain Gold Star soldier’s parents because they’re Muslim. 

Trump said tortured John McCain, who had been a prisoner of war, was “not a war hero. I like people who were not captured.”  

Trump refused to visit Aisne-Marne American Cemetery to honor American Unknown Soldiers because he "feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain.” John Kelly, White House COS quotes Trump saying the soldiers in the cemetery were “losers and suckers.”  

While my dad was shipping out for Vietnam, Donald Trump paid some doctor to say he was unfit for duty. His bone spurs don’t keep draft-dodger, rich boy Trump off of the golf course. 

VoteVets, a veterans’ PAC, claimed in a statement “DT hates veterans and their sacrifice because he looks so small in comparison to them.”  


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