Republicans cannot support the "bone spurs" coward who disrespected World War One dead

Maine Writer:  I was reminded about my opinion letter published when the former guy Trump refused to visit an American World War One cemetery in France, because of the spineless excuses he made. When I read this essay published The Atlantic, by Jeffrey Goldberg, the report reminded me to republish my letter (below):

When former guy Donald Trump canceled a visit to the beautiful Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.

Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

Maine Writer: In fact, my letter to the editor of The Times Record a Brunswick Maine newspaper is a response to this callous, disrespectful, unpatriotic and stupid response by former guy Trump to the sacrifices made by American military heroes.
TIMES RECORD
Posted November 15, 2018
Letter: Dismayed at Trump’s no-show at Aisne-Marne

In 1959, when Mrs. Emma Martin Morin of Pike Street in Biddeford turned 95 years old, her birthday was a front page feature story printed above the fold in the local newspaper. Her birthday celebration was featured because Mrs. Morin was a Gold Star mother. Her son Napoleon was only 19 years old when he was killed at the Battle of Chateau -Thierry, during World War I, in France. Napoleon is interred at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France. Memere Morin’s sacrifice stays with the family, even 60 years after her death at 95 years old, when she died at home on March 20, 1960, in Biddeford. She was the oldest World War I Gold Star mother from Biddeford’s Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley American Legion Post 26, Auxiliary. My husband and I visited the beautiful but somber cemetery in France, several years ago.

We traveled to the location from Paris, by train. We could have hired a taxi to drive us. We saw Napoleon’s grave marker inside the cemetery chapel. His name was carved above the alter.

Obviously, we are dismayed about how President Donald Trump was unable to travel to Aisne-Marne to commemorate the dedication of the Centennial of the end of World War I, with other European leaders, because of rain. There are at least 2,000 other graves of young Americans who are also interred at Aisne-Marne. Thankfully, Defense Secretary James Mattis was thoughtful enough to attend the ceremonies.

Juliana L’Heureux, in Topsham Maine