{"id":44270,"date":"2020-09-06T00:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44270"},"modified":"2020-09-06T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T16:19:05","slug":"no-losers-or-suckers-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44270","title":{"rendered":"No ‘losers’ or ‘suckers’ here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hey, I want to revisit the “suckers and losers” story briefly one more time. It isn’t likely the final<\/em> time, but I want to make a point.<\/p>\n

I come from an extended family of individuals whom Donald Trump reportedly has called suckers and losers because they served in the military.<\/p>\n

Let’s see: Dad saw combat in the Navy during World War II. Both of his brothers served in the Army; one of them served in combat during the Korean War, the other served in Germany between Korea and Vietnam. Mom’s two brothers also served; one of them served in the Army Air Force in the Pacific during World War; the other one retired as an Army Reserve colonel.<\/p>\n

Three of my brothers-in-law served in the military. Two of them served in the Air Force, the third one served in the Navy during the Vietnam War era.<\/p>\n

Four first cousins of mine served in our armed forces. One of them was a Navy fighter pilot; two of them served in the Army, with one of them serving multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan<\/em>; the fourth served in the Navy intelligence, again during the Vietnam War era.<\/p>\n

What’s more, I have one nephew who is currently serving in the Air Force and another nephew who served two Army tours in Iraq before separating from the military.<\/p>\n

You know already that I served in the Army in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Where am I going with this? Not a single one of these family members of mine are suckers or losers. They served with honor. Many of them put themselves in harm’s way. I am immensely proud to be kin to all of them.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has truly pissed me off.<\/p>\n\n

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Hey, I want to revisit the “suckers and losers” story briefly one more time. It isn’t likely the final time, but I want to make a point. I come from an extended family of individuals whom Donald Trump reportedly has called suckers and losers because they served in the military. Let’s see: Dad saw combat … Continue reading No ‘losers’ or ‘suckers’ here<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1424,9503],"class_list":["post-44270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-suckers-and-losers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44274,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44270\/revisions\/44274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}