Posted on 08/07/2016 10:57:26 AM PDT by real saxophonist
DENVER -- A Highlands Ranch man who says he was “disgusted” by Donald Trump’s comments about the mother of a Muslim U.S. Army Captain killed in Iraq, said he wants to do something about it.
Mike Sexton is asking people to show up at Fort Logan National Cemetery at 10 a.m. Sunday, to place flowers, or other tokens of appreciation, on the graves of Muslim soldiers.
He told Denver7 that if they can’t find any Muslim graves, they’ll place the flowers on graves of people who were different from them.
“For me, it may be Latino,” he said, “since I was raised Irish.”
He said the idea is to decorate a grave, “just to say we are all Americans here.”
Captain Humayun Khan’s father spoke at the Democratic National Convention. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Trump said, “If you look at his wife, she was standing there with nothing to say. She probably, maybe wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”
His comments ignited a firestorm of controversy from Democrats and Republicans.
“Capt. Khan gave his life for this country and that needs to be honored,” Sexton said.
“These people,” he added, pointing to grave markers at Fort Logan, “all sacrificed for this country, whether they were killed in action or whether they died comfortably in their beds after they sacrificed and went to war.”
Sexton
said, “We’re all Americans here. There are Jewish graves next to Christian graves. There are Native American symbols. There are Roman Catholic chalices."
And he said there are markers with "just names and no symbols.”
The Highlands Ranch man said he was home watching Saving Private Ryan, again, on the night Mr. Trump gave his “denigrating” remarks about the Khan’s.
“I wanted to remind myself what real sacrifice looks like,” he said. “I thought about the letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby,” (who lost five sons during the Civil War.)
In the movie, the actor portraying General George C. Marshall, was faced with having to notify another World War II era mom about the loss of her sons. He read Lincoln’s letter, which said in part, “the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid such a costly sacrifice on the Altar of Freedom.”
“I felt I had to honor that,” he said. “So I just put a little group on Facebook and said, ‘come if you’d like,’ and I think I touched a nerve.”
Sexton said he hopes others will show up Sunday morning, “but if not, I’ll come and do it myself.”
Sexton said he has no military background, but added that his brother is in the Army.
“I’d like to think that other Americans would honor him, if he was in one of these graves.”
Sexton also told Denver7 that he’d like to “issue a challenge to anyone running for political office, from any party, from dog catcher to the President of the United States, that they do the same thing."
He said people can meet at the Welcome Center at 10 a.m. Sunday. The Center is at the main entrance to Fort Logan National Cemetery, just off Sheridan Boulevard.
Hypocritical communists wrapping themselves in the American flag.
I do so hope that this fellow will publicize it if he or others find any space alien graves. We know the government has to have buried them somewhere and what better place than a veteran’s cemetery which only a few people visit and that infrequently!
Is he another Clinton operative?
How many dead Muslim vets are there in the military? Maybe black converts but there always seemed to be very few Muslims in the Army.
What a hero lol
Trump said nothing wrong and nothing to disparage gold star parents or deceased vetetans. The press has just demonstrated once again how vicious, partisan and conspiratorial they are.
And this is offensive how? I'm still looking for the offensive part that liberals have been shrieking about for the past 2 weeks after Mr. Khan disgusting dishonored his son by using his death to push falsehoods about someone who is trying to save and protect the constitution Mr. Khan claimed he so much cares about. And need I even guess this was all done with the full glee and approval of career criminal Hillary Clinton who cares about our constitution and vets as much as she care about rat spit, and BTW since it's been revealed Khan is a Sharia supremacist, I would say Trump was exactly right.
It would be interesting to find out this man’s background, affiliations, finances, etc. to see if there are any political or organizational linkages that we should know when reading this article.
Virtue signalling is the expression or promotion of viewpoints that are especially valued within a social group, especially when this is done primarily to enhance the social standing of the speaker.
I hope he doesn’t hurt himself parting himself on the back so hard.
Patting
Sexton is a pompous intolerant little jerk.
How did this “story” happen? Did the news crew randomly find the guy or did he call them up? Fishy.
Most of the American people still don’t know the truth about Khan and never will. They don’t even know that Khan started the whole dispute.
Did this man reach out to Patricia Smith who was lied to by Hillary Clinton and Zero as her son’s coffin was being taken off the aircraft? Did this man do his homework on the Khan family ties?
How come this guy isn’t upset with the Islamist terrorists that killed the Khan’s son?
Hillary Used Parents Of Dead Daughter To Attack Sanders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3457257/posts
If he wants to really do something constructive, he should donate some time to one of the nearby facilities for veterans-but I guess that wouldn’t bring enough drama and attention to satisfy him-he obviously has too much time on his hands...
Ambassador Stevens has no comment.
Forget having a fly front, maybe in the back!
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