Editor, The Commercial:
Veterans Day has passed. Being a veteran of 81 years, I noted the ceremonies done. Of our elected officials in Arkansas, some are active military, some ex-military and a few are officers in the military now. Among them are Rep. Womack, Rep. Crawford, our Lt. Gov. Griffin, and some state legislators.
Others with no military record I can locate are Sen. Boozman, Rep. Westerman, and Rep. Hill and Gov. Hutchinson.
Sen. Tom Cotton, of course, won’t let anyone forget what a hero he is (in his own mind, anyway.)
What I did notice and heartily deplore about the whole crew is that NOT ONE of them has spine enough to denounce publicly or privately Donald Trump’s disparaging of the veterans, some of our military heroes, deceased heroes before and after they died.
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
He repeatedly treated generals shabbily and in the past few days dismissed the secretary of defense because the man refused to politicize the Pentagon for Trump’s pleasure.
That excuse for a “Commander in Chief ” disparaged the son of an immigrant who died in our military service in the presence of his parents in public.
I believe all of the above referenced have a moral duty, if not a legal one, to give us a written and published full explanation of how they justify their continued enthusiastic support for this cretin. Birds of a feather — flock together. If they approve of Trump’s continuation as president — that indicates to me that they share Trump’s disregard for veterans like me who spent some rough time hospitalized from protecting this piece of junk.
You can’t be on both sides of the fence at the same time. Which is it?
Karl Hansen,
Hensley