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GreatCaesarsGhost

(8,584 posts) Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:32 PM Aug 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-khans-say-they-want-to-step-out-of-trump-fight/2016/08/01/7869525a-57e1-11e6-8b48-0cb344221131_story.html

Brian Duffy, head of the 1.7-million-member VFW, said in a statement Monday that election year or not, the nation’s oldest and largest war veterans group will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising their free speech. Gold Star families are those that have lost a close relative in military service.

Said Duffy: “There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed.”

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The Latest: VFW denounces Trump criticism of parents (Original Post) GreatCaesarsGhost Aug 2016 OP

Trump is in trouble if even the VFW is denouncing him Democat Aug 2016 #1

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1. Trump is in trouble if even the VFW is denouncing him

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:39 PM

Aug 2016

They were angry at Obama last month because he mentioned that too many people have been influenced by right wing media.