His name was Andy, a 19-year-old Marine, and on a brutally hot day in the mountains of South Vietnam, I held my hand over a hole blown through his stomach by an AK-47 round as he began to bleed to death. He was my friend, and for Donald Trump to call him and others who sacrificed so much for this country “losers” is simply despicable.

Throughout the history of our country, young men and women have always been called upon to defend our nation from external threats, and they always came as Andy did. While the geopolitical decisions that led us to a conflict were sometimes questionable, the commitment to defend our way of life by those in uniform never was.

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