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Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Veteran Chris Mark tells it as it is.....
Dear Mr. Khan,
I want to preface this letter by stating that I respect your son’s
sacrifice for this great nation. By all accounts, he is a true hero that
sacrificed himself in service to our country. For that I am thankful.
As a veteran, I watched your comments at the Democratic National
Convention with a mixture of sadness, and anger. The United States has a
military comprised of volunteers. Every single member has made the
conscious choice to join the military and serve. There is not a single
service member who has been forced into service. It is important for all
service members (and apparently, their families) to understand that
service to this great nation does not imbue one with special privileges
or rights. I found your comments troubling when you said: “Have you ever
been to Arlington cemetery? Go look at the graves of brave patriots who
died defending the United States of America. You will see all faiths,
genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Does it matter whether Mr. Trump has sacrificed “…nothing and no
one?”…has Ms. Clinton “..sacrificed” for this nation? How about Mr.
Obama? Your comment stating that Mr. Trump “…has sacrifice no one” is
alarming. Are you intimating that YOU sacrificed? Sir, your son
willingly sacrificed himself. As a father I cannot imagine the pain you
must feel but his sacrifice is his own. He was not forced to serve.
I am troubled that you would allow a party that has little more than
contempt for the US Service Member to parade you into the DNC to
denounce Donald Trump. Did you watch when protesters at the DNC booed
and heckled Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Florent Groberg? Did you
notice your party interrupting the moment of silence for slain police
officers? Your own hypocrisy in not denouncing these acts and instead
using the DNC as a platform to make a political point is disgraceful.
The simple fact is that whether one served or sacrificed does not give
greater power to their statements. One vote is as valuable as another.
That sir, is why our Country is great. Your condemnation of one person
for a statement while standing idly as your party disparages veterans
and police officers is the height of hypocrisy.
To conflate the need to prevent potential terrorists from entering
our country with the belief that ‘all Muslims’ should be banned is
simply wrong and disingenuous. As a reminder, Mr. Trump said: ” “Until
we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous
threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks
by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or
respect for human life,” The irony of your son’s own death at the hands
of these very people in Iraq should not be ignored. I have little doubt
that your son would have recognized the need to protect our country from
these very people. In fact, he held is own troops back so that he could
check on a suspicious car. Your son understood sacrifice and how to
protect “his people”…’his soldiers’….’his fellow Americans’…
As you continue to make the media circuit and bask in the glow of
affection cast upon you by a party that has little regard for your son’s
own sacrifice, and veterans in general, I would ask you to consider
your comments and your position more closely.
Respectfully,
Chris Mark
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