Gen. Mark Milley, the retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a new interview that former President Donald Trump told him not to bring wounded veterans to public events.
The profile piece, The Patriot, published in The Atlantic, offers details about Trump’s reaction to Milley’s 2019 welcome ceremony.
The ceremony took place at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. Miller chose wounded army captain Luis Avila to sing “God Bless America.”
Avila has been on five combat tours and lost a leg to an Ied. He has also suffered heart attacks, strokes and brain damage, as a result of his injuries. Milley wanted to celebrate Avila’s heroism and bravery, as a testament to the sacrifices marked forces make for their country.
It was rainy the day of the ceremony, and the profile describes how even with the help of Milley’s wife and then-Vice President Mike Pence,...
The profile piece, The Patriot, published in The Atlantic, offers details about Trump’s reaction to Milley’s 2019 welcome ceremony.
The ceremony took place at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. Miller chose wounded army captain Luis Avila to sing “God Bless America.”
Avila has been on five combat tours and lost a leg to an Ied. He has also suffered heart attacks, strokes and brain damage, as a result of his injuries. Milley wanted to celebrate Avila’s heroism and bravery, as a testament to the sacrifices marked forces make for their country.
It was rainy the day of the ceremony, and the profile describes how even with the help of Milley’s wife and then-Vice President Mike Pence,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Bay Zisman
- Uinterview
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a veteran of the Afghanistan War, was disgusted Sunday by a September 2019 comment that then-President Donald Trump made about a wounded Army captain, as reported Thursday in The Atlantic.
Trump, in the same vein as his 2015 declaration that Vietnam veteran and prisoner of war John McCain was “not a war hero” because he “likes people who weren’t captured,” apparently groused about the inclusion of Luis Avila at the welcome ceremony for incoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley. An Ied...
Trump, in the same vein as his 2015 declaration that Vietnam veteran and prisoner of war John McCain was “not a war hero” because he “likes people who weren’t captured,” apparently groused about the inclusion of Luis Avila at the welcome ceremony for incoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley. An Ied...
- 9/24/2023
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
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