I received this open letter to Mr. Khan from one of our veterans yesterday and I encourage you to read it.
Dear Mr. Khan,
I want to preface this letter by stating that I respect your son’s sacrifice for this great nation. By all accounts, he is a true hero that sacrificed himself in service to our country. For that I am thankful.
As a veteran, I watched your comments at the Democratic National Convention with a mixture of sadness, and anger. The United States has a military comprised of volunteers. Every single member has made the conscious choice to join the military and serve. There is not a single service member who has been forced into service. It is important for all service members (and apparently, their families) to understand that service to this great nation does not imbue one with special privileges or rights. I found your comments troubling when you said: “Have you ever been to Arlington cemetery? Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the United States of America. You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Does it matter whether Mr. Trump has sacrificed “ . . . nothing and no one?” . . . has Ms. Clinton “ . . . sacrificed” for this nation? How about Mr. Obama? Your comment stating that Mr. Trump “ . . . has sacrificed no one” is alarming. Are you intimating that YOU sacrificed? Sir, your son willingly sacrificed himself. As a father I cannot imagine the pain you must feel but his sacrifice is his own. He was not forced to serve.
I am troubled that you would allow a party that has little more than contempt for the US Service Member to parade you into the DNC to denounce Donald Trump. Did you watch when protesters at the DNC booed and heckled Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Florent Groberg? Did you notice your party interrupting the moment of silence for slain police officers? Your own hypocrisy in not denouncing these acts and instead using the DNC as a platform to make a political point is disgraceful. The simple fact is that whether one served or sacrificed does not give greater power to their statements. One vote is as valuable as another. That sir, is why our Country is great. Your condemnation of one person for a statement while standing idly as your party disparages veterans and police officers is the height of hypocrisy.
To conflate the need to prevent potential terrorists from entering our country with the belief that ‘all Muslims’ should be banned is simply wrong and disingenuous. As a reminder, Mr. Trump said: ” “Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” The irony of your son’s own death at the hands of these very people in Iraq should not be ignored. I have little doubt that your son would have recognized the need to protect our country from these very people. In fact, he held is own troops back so that he could check on a suspicious car. Your son understood sacrifice and how to protect “his people” . . . ’his soldiers’ . . . ’his fellow Americans’ . . .
As you continue to make the media circuit and bask in the glow of affection cast upon you by a party that has little regard for your son’s own sacrifice, and veterans in general, I would ask you to consider your comments and your position more closely.
Respectfully,
Chris Mark
US Marine and Navy Veteran.
Does anyone think this letter will ever see the light of day in mainstream media?
It is disheartening to me to see that the media in this country is now nothing more than a propaganda spewing machine in what I would describe as an advanced version of North Korean style trampling of truth with pure propaganda. Our television sets are more like sewer pipes emptying into our living rooms nightly.
What can turn it around?
Hmmm . . . Direct intervention by God as a final option is all that I can come up with. Hate to end the week on such a negative note, but I just don’t see truth winning the battle from either side of the aisle. We have become a nation of those who lie, those who know they are being fed a pack of lies but choose to accept them anyway, those who are busy with other things and just don’t care, and that tiny remnant who cares but has been largely silenced.
Linda Kimble wrote: A nation of liars. This is where we are and what we are rapidly becoming. The problem is not just in Obama, Leftists, ‘gays’, and abortionists but in our churches and in ourselves.
She went on to write: If only there were evil liars somewhere, ” . . . insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
God has to be shaking His head this morning as He views this once great land that He has so wonderfully blessed. Gosh I hope he doesn’t turn His face from us! Whoa as a Christian I must understand that Christ is in control, will never abandon us, and has left a powerful weapon to us that can be used to change the world -prayer . . .
Have a great weekend and go to church this Sunday. Hopefully you will pray for this nation.
Phil. 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
August 5 2016 – Click here to listen