Duckworth slams Trump: 'Nothing easy' about getting Purple Heart

[RandySF]

esponding to Donald Trump's claim that he "always wanted to get the Purple Heart," Rep. Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday tweeted a picture of her injured self in a hospital with her own medal, adding: "Nothing easy about it."

"This is how one usually looks when you are awarded the Purple Heart. Nothing easy about it," the Illinois congresswoman tweeted directly at the Republican presidential nominee, accompanied by a picture of her battle scars from Iraq. Duckworth is currently involved in one of the nation's most high-profile Senate races, against Republican incumbent Mark Kirk.




http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/tammy-duckworth-purple-heart-donald-trump-226596

[rusty quoin]

1. I remember how she destroyed that ROTC guy

Who got money slated for injured vets. It was something like, "does your ankle still hurt?"

Dumb guy says, "it hurts at times." Boy did she humiliate dumb guy. Trying to get money intended for vets with real injuries...she is kick ass.

[Squinch]

5. That was a truly beautiful thing.

[get the red out]

2. My uncle refused a Purple Heart in Korea

He worried about the effect it would have on my Grandmother to realize he had any injuries at all.

Trump couldn't deal with 5 minutes of what Purple Heart veterans went through.

[pinboy3niner]

3. I can't compare to Tammy, but like her I nearly died to merit a Purple Heart

The Army notified my family when I was wounded, sending telegrams to my mother, my older brother, and my little brother--who received the telegram on bunker guard in Vietnam. And yes, they were profoundly affected. In another thread I posted the telegram they got. Can you imagine the telegram Tammy's family received? Had to be much more devastating than what my family got...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2337492

[get the red out]

4. Thank you for your service and bravery

Drumph is an insult to the human race while Tammy shows the best in humanity.

[Squinch]

6. Oh my God. How terrifying for your family. And how insulting that all you went through and all

your family went through is treated so glibly by this moron.

I can't remember where or I would attribute it, but I just read someone who said that Trump should have pinned that purple heart right back on the guy who was trying to give it to him.

That would have been the right thing to do.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Khizr Khan said that

Khizr Khan on Trump & Purple Heart: You should've "pinned that back to that veteran's chest"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512338630

[Squinch]

8. Was it? That guy is awesome!

[pinboy3niner]

9. Amen!

Anyone needing a lesson on standing up to bullies should look to him and his wife for an example. They are righteous!