Murkowski: Gold Star families deserve support

“While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”, McCain said in a news release issued by his campaign. – Veterans of Foreign Wars leader Brian Duffy, who called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump out of line for his repeated criticism of a bereaved Muslim-American military family.

The Khan’s son, Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed by suicide bomber while deployed in 2004.

The letter, posted on the website VoteVets.org, calls Trump’s comments “repugnant and personally offensive to us”.

In their letter, other Gold Star family members rejected Trump’s definition of sacrifice.

Trump continued the feed the backlash – including from many Republicans who have denounced his comments, as well as the VFW and a group of Gold Star families – tweeting on Monday that Khan “viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same”.

Khizr Khan spoke at last week’s Democratic National Convention. Trump responded by criticizing his wife, Ghazala Khan, for her silence during his speech and suggesting she wasn’t allowed to speak.

“You have sacrificed nothing and no one”, Khan said. “You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost”, they wrote.

“We are immigrants. We are immigrants, and we paid the ultimate sacrifice”, Arredondo said. When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice.

This goes beyond politics. “That kind decency you mock as ‘political correctness'”.