TreasonousBastard
TreasonousBastard's JournalIn case youhaven't seen MJ Hegar's letter about Trump...
Email from democrats.org I got this morning. Bolded something I didn't know, but is damned impressive.
William,
When I read the article yesterday about what our Commander-in-Chief said about wounded and dead soldiers, my stomach dropped. I saw the faces of so many people I lost in my aircraft flashing through my mind.
I medevaced soldiers off the battlefield in Afghanistan. Soldiers wounded so gravely that their lives would never be the same because of their injuries -- and soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country, whose families would forever have a void that can never be filled. Our Commander-in-Chief thinks that theyre suckers.
Im one of the pilots that got shot down in combat. After we were shot down, my crew and I managed to get our patients to safety. I strapped myself to the skids of our rescue helicopter and returned fire on the Taliban fighters. Our Commander-in-Chief thinks that makes me a loser.
Its not about the name calling. Thats not the part that makes me sick. Its the fact that this Commander-in-Chief makes decisions about when and how to deploy our troops -- and he has absolutely no respect for their courage, and no regard for their sacrifices.
Its sickening, but this isnt surprising. Anyone who has paid any attention to Donald Trump over the last few years saw him disparage patriot John McCain, denigrate the Gold Star family of Captain Humayun Khan, disrespect and discredit transgender military members, and steal funds from our military bases for his border wall. The list goes on, and on, and on.
Yet my opponent, John Cornyn, refuses to take a stand for our troops. Still.
In the hours after this was reported, Senator Cornyn tweeted numerous times. Not once did he mention the Presidents comments. Not once did he stand up for the 164,234 active duty military members here in Texas.
Who will hold Donald Trump accountable? Unfortunately, its not going to be John Cornyn. Hes let the President get away with it again, and again, and again.
Its on us.
This is a call to action to every patriot across the country: The time is now to stand up for our veterans, our military, and the next generation putting on the uniform. We need to send a resounding message that this is unacceptable -- to send that message at the polls and hold our leaders accountable.
Our country is counting on you to answer the call.
Thanks,
MJ
MJ Hegar
U.S. Senate candidate, Texas
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My father was in the Third Army, although he never said much about the battles he fought in...
I imagine he saw enough action working under Patton. I never thought about when I was younger, but soldiers almost never discuss the actual battle. Perhaps the enormity of of the bloodshed around them is overwhelming, perhaps they never worked out the paradoxes between the heroic acts of killing and how violence is condemned in civilian life, or perhaps it is something else, but they scrupulously avoid recounting the thunder of the guns and shells, the smells of cordite and blood, the shit-in-your-pants-fear, the screams of the wounded and dying... It is as if we who were not there cannot hear of it. We just wouldn't understand. Or perhaps it's just not worth it to try to make us understand.
Or we do not deserve to hear, and that is frightening.
It won't happen but I'd love to see Major Hegar say...
"Come down here and call me a loser to my face, you draft dodging cowardly overfilled sack of shit."
Remind everyone that Trump still refuses to admit he was wrong about Central park Five...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has-said-central-park-five/1501321001/Full page ads demanding the death penalty for a crime they were eventually exonerated for. He still claims they had to be guilty of something at least as bad.
This is the Law and Order president.
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