This is quite true, but why are you posting about Donald Trump in the thread about Tim Walz? |
Showing up and thanking volunteers? That’s a volunteer’s dream, holy crap. |
Which is worse - ignoring "Im not talking about the white supremacists" in the very fine speech or covering the lie of stolen valor about a Congressional trip to Afghanistan? |
Was he? Walz, Minnesota’s governor since 2019, spoke about his “guilt” that he “came home” when others did not during a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — moments before mentioning his time at Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base, without clarifying he was there as a civilian. “I had the privilege of serving in this state’s National Guard. And when I left, I had a 2-year-old, and when I came home, I had a 3-year-old. But as I listened to [Gold Star families speak] — the guilt. I came home and my daughter went on, and when you’re 2 and 3, she knew no difference,” said Walz, who deployed to Italy in a support role in 2003 during the war on terror. He’s a liar. My first duty station out of AIT, I deployed. This dude is a liar. |
Link this source please so I can read the proper context, not just jumbled quotes from different speeches. He was deployed for a year, might not have been to Iraq or Afghanistan, but it was a deployment. For a year of his young child’s life. You should know that’s a big deal to a family. |
In a speech at the Minnesota State House on a “Day of Remembrance” marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Mr. Walz left the impression he saw combat. Among the speakers were two women: Jill Stephenson, who lost her son, an Army Ranger, in Afghanistan, and Mariah Jacobsen, whose father died on the hijacked United Flight 93. Brave passengers organized an in-flight reaction force to try to rescue the plane from al Qaeda suicide pilots who then crashed the jet in a field near Shanksville in southwestern Pennsylvania, killing all onboard. After the women spoke, Mr. Walz delivered remarks. He said at one point: “I had the privilege of serving in this state’s National Guard. And when I left, I had a 2-year-old, and when I came home, I had a 3-year-old. But as I listened to Jill and I listened to Mariah, the guilt. I came home, and my daughter went on.” A military veteran expressing guilt about returning home when others did not is typically something a combatant says. The video is posted on YouTube under the headline “9/11 Day of Remembrance at the MN State Capitol (9/11/21).” Credit is given to the Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum, which also has a link on its website. Viewer comments have been removed, and the ability to leave comments has been turned off. |