Posted on 02/26/2017 11:02:55 AM PST by nickcarraway
He admitted he didn’t vote for Trump. One may assume he backed Hillary.
“Bill Owens doesn’t want to talk about Ryan’s wife or his three young children. There are other things that he believes should remain private. He spoke out, he says, at the risk of offending some of his family and friends.”
Quite a few “tells” in this article. Bill and his first wife divorced, she and the two other children moved back to Illinois. Ryan’s mother and Bill also divorced and she moved away with Ryan as well. Bill mentions that despite the distance they spent holidays and summer together. He then mentions that he was hoping to make up for lost time, which wasn’t going to happen now. The most interesting is the above comment that he didn’t want to talk about Ryan’s wife or children, that some things need to remain private. (What grandfather wouldn’t want to mention his fallen sons wife and children?). Then make the comment that he was risking offending family and friends.
Bill is a guilty father and as I see it, Bill has been an estranged/absent father, at times, throughout his kids lives. His wives did not want the children to be influenced by their father so they moved away with them. He does not have a good relationship with Ryan’s wife and children either. Lots more to this story than meets the eye.
Sorry, but parents who lose sons to battle can have a leftist political axe to grind like anyone else. And if they try to politicize their sons’ deaths, we need to respond.
Wasn’t their son killed about five years before the campaign season? I remember wondering (not) why they didn’t bring this up during the Obunghole regime.
And I don’t remember Trump treating them badly, in any case.
Sounds like this guy is taking lessons from Cindy Sheehan.
Wasn’t it also suggested that someone, out to get Trump, may have leaked info about this mission? And by someone out to get Trump it was probably someone in the Obama admin. Trump should realize that Obama and probably Jarrett and God knows who else in the Obama admin., know all the previously made plans and well loose lips sink ships. Don’t follow any of Obama’s plans, come up with different ones.
This article is on drudge and the comments are unbelievable ! They are throwing all they have at Trump. The hatred is so deep and damaging. I really don’t know what these asshats are trying to accomplish. We are going to end up in burkas and then they’ll say “we really didn’t mean it” or “why did Trump let his happen”?
I smell MSM manipulation. More “FAKE NEWS>”
I don't know, we are not at war with Yemen so sending in a team of SEALS could have some pretty serious consequences. But then again, I guess not since it's been revealed and there have been no consequences. But I still think that before we sent anyone sends forces into a nation we are not at war with, someone other than some Pentagon guy should consider the bigger picture on foreign affairs.
When I was teaching in Turkey, during a college vacation, I took a trip to Gallipoli. By coincidence, it was also ANZAC Day, with lots of Aussies and New Zealanders visiting the place. I got to look at the battlefield, both from the perspective of the invading troops on the beach, and the Turkish defenders on the heights.
Excellent museum there, with lots of information about the battle.
One of the lessons taught in War Colleges from 1918 on, based on the Gallipoli experience, was that you can't force a landing on a defended beach. WW II proved that to be wrong.
The SEALS are a combat unit that is extremely high risk.
Nice post, thanks for adding detail.
“Strange, following election day in 2008, we not only stopped hearing about evil Halliburton but no further reference to McCain as “the Maverick”........”
New election with Trump in charge, and suddenly McCain is once again the lyin’ MSM’s favorite so-called “maverick.”
Gee.
Oldplayer
Who wants to bet that he will call up Cindy Sheehan???
Wonder what the widow thinks of this?
Yeah, the Dad’s comments sound like limited criticism for one who just lost a son. He’s not going full-bore by any means. A lot of hurt there.
So it's okay for HRC to call 4 gold star families liars, but DJT can't reply when called out at the opponents convention.
“So it’s okay for HRC to call 4 gold star families liars, but DJT can’t reply when called out at the opponents convention.”
As I said, I don’t recall Trump saying anything improper.
The SEALS are a combat unit that is extremely high risk.
The SEALS are a combat unit that is extremely high risk.
The SEALS are a combat unit that is extremely high risk.
Neither do I. But I hate that the enemedia refuses to mention the mistreatment of the Benghazi gold star families at the hands of HRC and the obama administration, while pressing the DJT tale.
Ditto.
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