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The Greatest Generation’s rebuke of Trump
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer September 28 at 3:37 PM
John Warner, veteran of World War II and Korea, speechwriter in the Eisenhower White House, secretary of the Navy in the Nixon Pentagon, Republican senator from Virginia and longtime chairman and ranking member of the Armed Services Committee before his retirement in 2009, performed one more act of public service Wednesday.
He urged those who love the military and care about American leadership to defeat Donald Trump.
Warner — endorsing the Democratic ticket while standing in Alexandria, Va., with fellow Virginian Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate — spoke bitterly of Trump’s description of the military as a “disaster” and a “shambles” with the generals reduced to “rubble.”
“We have today the strongest military in the world; no one can compare with us,” Warner said. Though the military needs to be modernized, he added, “no one should have the audacity to stand up and degrade the Purple Heart, degrade military families or talk about the military being in a state of disaster. That’s wrong!”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-greatest-generations-rebuke-of-trump/2016/09/28/76bd3d68-85a9-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html?utm_term=.94202baf2897&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
