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powerful excerpt from President Trump’s speech.
“I’d be at Dover where these magnificent machines would come in, the big cargo planes, and that door would open up and there’d be a coffin in the back...And I’d be with the parents an hour before and we’d be talking, and I’d say to the general in-charge, ‘General, the parents seemed to be okay,’ and he’d say, ‘No, they’re not, sir. They’re not okay’...
“They’d tell me these stories. They just were so in love with telling the stories about their son or their daughter...
“And then, I’d look at the general. I’d say, ‘Well, it’s amazing the way they can handle it.’ And then, the plane would come in and the general would say, ‘Sir, it’s not going to be good.’ And that door would open up...and there’d be one or two or three or four coffins, and I’d see the same people that were talking to me so jubilant about their child, how great the child was, would start screaming, screaming. Screams like I’ve never heard before.
“It was the most terrible thing to watch. And the general in charge would say, ‘Sir, you’re going to see things that you maybe will not have seen.’
‘Like what, General?’
“He said, ‘Mothers and wives, and even fathers sometimes, breaking through the military ranks and jumping on top of the coffin.’
“And I got to see that one time where a mother, she was devastated. She jumped on and these incredible, extremely fit soldiers are taking that coffin...they would just keep walking.
“And the mother was on the coffin, and this is for Afghanistan and for Iraq, and for these other places, where so many mistakes were made, where we shouldn’t be...”