OPINION:
President Trump continues to bash positions taken by Sen. John McCain — which is somewhat amazing since McCain has been dead for seven months. I believe Mr. Trump, who did not serve in the military like the late McCain, wants to be in the spotlight all the time and doesn’t care if he receives negative criticism about his comments.
As a former Navy enlisted man and officer I am particularly perturbed with the president’s ongoing disparagement of McCain’s military service. McCain was a Navy pilot who flew missions against the enemy in Vietnam, and unfortunately he was shot down and spent years in a North Vietnam prison. I believe Mr. Trump was able to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War by receiving four draft deferments while in college, and then he was deemed medically unacceptable after college because of a supposed bone spur in his heel (apparently conjured up by Mr. Trump and his doctor). Mr. Trump skated out of military service and is no better than the draft dodgers who went to Canada during the Vietnam War.
And now as president he continues with his toxicity.
LT. DONALD MOSKOWITZ
U.S. Navy (retired)
Londonderry, N.H.
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