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'YOU ROLLED YOUR F***ING EYES': GOLD STAR MOTHER SHARES HER UNFILTERED EXPERIENCE WITH JOE BIDEN AT DOVER
AUGUST 31, 2021
Joe Biden doesn't seem to know what the word "dignified" means in "dignified transfer." Though unlike the previous stories of our puddingheaded president upsetting Gold Star Families, this isn't told through the filter of a Washington Post reporter. This is a Gold Star Mother's raw emotion. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui was one of our Marines who lost his life in the Kabul terror attack. His mother, Shana Chappell, shared her experience meeting his commander in chief last weekend in Dover.
"I am the one who stood 5 inches from your face and was letting you know I would never get to hug my son again, hear his laugh, and then you tried to interrupt me and give me your own sob story and I had to tell you 'that this isn't about you so don't make it about you!' You then said you just wanted me to know that you know how I feel and I let you know that you don't know how I feel and you do not have the right to tell me you know how I feel."
Funny, but I remember reading stories of when President Bush would meet with Gold Star Families, he would just sit there and let the families yell at him. He actually understood. Joe Biden, from these accounts, sounds like he couldn't be bothered. Along with a dash of "How dare you talk to me like this?"
It gets worse:
"You turned to walk away and I let you know my son's blood was on your hands and you threw your hand up behind you as you walked away from me like you were saying, 'ok, whatever.'"
Let me know if you read about anyone having a POSITIVE experience with Joe Biden at the dignified transfer. I haven't seen any positive accounts yet.
Since Rudy can use all the help he can get these days, from What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind this month's issue of The Atlantic.
Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11
The armory was a seething mass of the desperate. Hundreds of families were lined up outside, carrying posters with faces of their loved ones. A minister escorted my brother, Jen, Andre, and the McIlvaine family inside. Helen gave him Bobby’s name. A police officer approached her from across the room. “Are you the mother?”
Much of what followed was a blur. They were shown to a private room where grief counselors descended on them. Then something unusual happened: Rudy Giuliani walked in.
The mayor was unaccompanied. Without aides, without cameras, nothing. He looked genuinely relieved to have a family to console...
That's one of the most painful things I've ever heard. The anguish in her voice is crippling.
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