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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ghazala Khan Wash. Post Op/Ed: "Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice." [View all]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ghazala-khan-donald-trump-criticized-my-silence-he-knows-nothing-about-true-sacrifice/2016/07/31/c46e52ec-571c-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?tid=sm_fbGhazala Khan: Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice.
By Ghazala Khan OpinionsJuly 31 at 9:45 AM
Ghazala Khans son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004.
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Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart.
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The last time I spoke to my son was on Mothers Day 2004. We had asked him to call us collect whenever he could. I begged him to be safe. I asked him to stay back, and not to go running around trying to become a hero, because I knew he would do something like that.
He said, Mom, these are my soldiers, these are my people. I have to take care of them. He was killed by a car bomber outside the gates of his base. He died trying to save his soldiers and innocent civilians.
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When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant. If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion.
Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesnt know what the word sacrifice means.
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Ghazala Khan Wash. Post Op/Ed: "Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice." [View all]
Hissyspit
Jul 2016
OP
Trump is betting that there are enough racist in this country to put him over the top in November
VMA131Marine
Jul 2016
#3
If Trump had let it drop, the whole thing might have ended right there. But he violated a
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#13
Thanks to Trump's ineptitude, his supporters now have massive cognitive dissonance (read, anxiety)
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#19