Democrats decry ‘disrespect,’ but Trump was there for families of fallen

Seems to me there have been quite a few articles in the Gazette lately about Donald Trump’s disrespect for veterans, either from syndicated columnists or Community Letters.

First off, he was invited to Arlington National Cemetery by the families of the fallen. He was not sitting on a beach in California watching the tide come in, and he was not responsible in any way for their deaths or the more than $7 billion of equipment left behind in Afghanistan to be used to kill more American soldiers. As a veteran myself, if the Democratic Party asked me to follow them up the hill I think it may be smarter to sit at the bottom and have another cigarette. As you rip this man apart, keep in mind why he was there.

Jon Volz

Cedar Rapids