By coincidence, both my dad and my father-in-law were Marines who served in the Marshall Islands

[Atticus]

during WWII. They never met and were in different platoons, but they were in that combat zone at the same time. Each would tell amusing anecdotes about that time, but neither spoke about the shooting except in the broadest inspecific manner. The experience gave each of them "quiet" times and occasional dreams they would not discuss. Each was a patriot. Each was a hero---to his children and his grateful nation.

I still tear up when I recall the "jarheads" in dress blues who attended my dad's services and hearing "Taps" always puts a catch in my throat.

And, now, this----this----filthy moral pygmy---hell, moral PISS ANT!---dares to call my dad---my wife's dad---"fools" and "suckers"? I am at a loss to form an adequate response. No matter how large I make my font, typing "FUCK YOU, SCUMBAG!" does not begin to convey how much I loathe this arrogant coward!

I hope that some day, in this life or the next, justice will be done.

[lark]

1. I hope and pray karma will smack his fat ass down to the ground and he loses everything & is jailed.

That would be totally fitting and just, anything less is not sufficient.

[LakeArenal]

2. My dad was in the second wave at Normandy

What he saw coming to land was so traumatizing, we would never take praise for his service. Praise was for the first wave at Normandy not him.

[sdfernando]

3. I'm with you Atticus!

My dad was in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and still with us at 93. I've had family members killed in each of those wars. I cannot put into words the disgust I have for that subhuman tangeranus!

[Karadeniz]

4. I'm sorry...remember, if it's something shady, immoral, or illegal, he's all for it. Trump

Puts down the Good because he knows it's something he can't achieve.

[Thekaspervote]

5. Oh right there with ya!! The anger, sadness & outrage I feel over this beyond description

Father in law went down on the USS Hornet during the battle of Midway.

2 uncles that were in the European theatre. Another fought in Korea

Such disrespect for my family members that gave so much, and for all service personnel everywhere

[TreasonousBastard]

6. My father was in the Third Army, although he never said much about the battles he fought in...

I imagine he saw enough action working under Patton. I never thought about when I was younger, but soldiers almost never discuss the actual battle. Perhaps the enormity of of the bloodshed around them is overwhelming, perhaps they never worked out the paradoxes between the heroic acts of killing and how violence is condemned in civilian life, or perhaps it is something else, but they scrupulously avoid recounting the thunder of the guns and shells, the smells of cordite and blood, the shit-in-your-pants-fear, the screams of the wounded and dying... It is as if we who were not there cannot hear of it. We just wouldn't understand. Or perhaps it's just not worth it to try to make us understand.

Or we do not deserve to hear, and that is frightening.