I would like to comment on two words — slander and vulgarity — at the end of a recent letter, and expand on them. The former president normally reserves his slander and vulgarity for women but occasionally makes these types of comments about the military. A military which includes women, as well as men, those of you serving now, those who are veterans and their families.
When the former president was in office and visited France, he refused to go the graves of U.S. soldiers who died in World War II, calling them “losers” and “suckers.” After he left office, he said his former military chief had committed a “treasonous act” and “so egregious, that in times gone by, the punishment would have been death!” Slander and vulgarity are mild words when compared to what this veteran could say but I can’t do that here.
Responding to his denigrating remarks about her missing husband, who is deployed overseas, presidential candidate Nikki Haley said, “Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander in chief,” and Major Haley’s response was, “The difference between humans and animals? Animals would never allow the dumbest ones to lead the pack.”
