As a veteran and someone who served our nation for four
years on active duty an another 26 years in Research and Development employed
by the United States Air Force I find the comments made by Mr. Trump about the
Khizr Khan to be repulsive and shows the true side of him. Mr. Trump needs to formally apologize
not only to the Khan family but also to every veteran and every citizen of the
United States.
Mr. and Mrs. Kahn lost their son Captain Humayun Khan on
June 8th 2004 when a suicide bomber drove his taxi towards hundreds
of US solders in Iraq. Captain Kahn ordered his men to “hit the dirt” but he
went towards the taxi motioning it to stop. The bomber prematurely set off his bomb killing Captain Khan
and two Iraqi civilians but not the hundreds he was going after. Captain Khan and his parents are muslin
but first they are Americans.
Mr. Trump appears to not understand we are American’s first
and our ethic and religious background second. We are a nation that has repeatedly
been called a melting pot. He and Mike Pence think they can insult, bully and
get their way. It is time for all American’s to reject their policy of hate.
Captain Kahn was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with
full military honors on June 17, 2004.
His headstone shows the Muslim Crescent and Star just one of
the other 62 symbols of faith on headstones at Arlington. The hollowed ground
of Arlington is a true melting pot of the United States of America.
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