Gold Star families deserve our support

‘If it was up to Donald Trump he never would have been in America, ‘ Khizr Khan said, referencing Trump’s plans to ban non-American Muslims from the United States. He fought back, saying the Khans had no right to question him like that.

Trump has yet to apologize although his son, Eric Trump, said on CBS This Morning that the senior Trump had indeed apologized to the Khans and the Gold Star families.

Also Monday, family members of 11 slain service members wrote to Trump insisting on an apology.

Like the Kahns, the Schauweckers share the honor of being a Gold Star Family.

Trump implied that Khan may have silenced his wife for religious reasons. Martinez, the nation’s only Latina governor, is joining a chorus of Republican lawmakers in disavowing Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of a bereaved military family.

The letter was released publicly on Monday by VoteVets.org, a left-leaning group dedicated to electing liberal veterans to Congress. Meredith is a Democrat but said this is a nonpartisan issue. RNC chairman Reince Priebus appeared on CNN Monday evening and was asked about Donald Trump’s criticism of the Khan family.

A Christie spokesman did not immediately respond to a Press request for comment.

On Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the first of the 2016 White House hopefuls to endorse Trump, said his response was “inappropriate”. “You need to stop, step back, talk to people who know more than you do about different subjects and just listen to them and take their advice”.

If a family member died in service to the country, that person’s blue star on the flag would be changed to gold. Her brother, Marine 1st Lt. Travis Manion, was killed in Iraq in 2007.

In their struggle to recover from their losses, the Arredondos have turned to other families of members of the military killed while serving and Boston Marathon bombing survivors. By the way, Johnson also said he can’t fit Trump’s rally Friday in Green Bay into his schedule.

“Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression”, VFW leader Brian Duffy said in a statement.

President Barack Obama addressed the Disabled American Veterans’ annual conference in Atlanta on Monday. That included anything dealing with Trump and the Khans. “Always.” Indeed, if Trump wants to be the commander in chief, he’s going to have to do better than attacking Gold Star families, policy disagreements notwithstanding. Army Spc. Christopher Neiberger was killed in Iraq in 2007. If you don’t like what they say, express condolences for what they have lost, and thanks for what they have given, and leave it at that. “If he tells them to torture, what does that say about our country?” Whoever saw me felt me in their heart. She blamed Hillary Clinton for her son’s death.

But he said “as unpleasant as some of his comments are, like many Americans, I’m more concerned with her (Hillary Clinton’s) risky policies and views on national security, the economy and Supreme Court appointments as well as her inability to tell the truth”.

“We are all Gold Star Families, who have lost those we love the most in war”.