Donald Trump receiving a Purple Heart and saying "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier" when a man handed him the medal is like a slap in the face of veterans who were wounded and received the medal, like my late grandfather who fought in World War II.
He says that he has made many sacrifices, but let me tell Mr. Trump the story of real sacrifice and bravery:
Major James I Reid was the captain of an artillery battery during WW II. He led his battery through North Africa, Italy, France, and in the final years of the war Germany. While in Ulm Germany he went with a junior officer and an interpreter to find out of a city was void of life so that they could invade/shell it without hurting civilians with a machine gun on his lap in the jeep. They found no one there. The town was supposed to be secured, but they saw a German half-track (armored protection vehicle). The driver of the jeep swerved and James rolled onto the ground and spotted three men and told them to put their hands up, as he had a gun and they didn’t. After that nine more men came with their hands up and the interpreter got into the half-track and went through a German occupied town. As they are nearing American lines they are spotted by the battery and the camo nets came off of the American’s artillery in preparation to shoot, but the interpreter and James were able to signal them not to. Later, a two star sergeant under James, the same man who put him in for a Silver Star came to St. Louis in 1978 and asked James if he had gotten his Star, but he hadn’t because paperwork had gotten lost, so that year he received his Silver Star in the presence of his daughter (my mother) and his son (my uncle).
That, Mr. Trump, is how my grandfather, a veteran, received a Silver Star. But it doesn't end there. he also received a Purple Heart, the one that was just handed to you because he was wounded in South Africa, also during WWII.
So yes, keep telling us that you support veterans because I'm quite sure you evaded the Vietnam draft. It is shameful and disrespectful.
