11/11/17: Today the Trump clan celebrates Veterans Day the same way it has since the holiday was created as Armistice Day nearly a century ago. In keeping with tradition, all members of the Trump brood remain safely at home. Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich, first of the clan to arrive on these shores, could have enlisted during the Spanish American War. The 29-year-old chose not.
The mountains Trumps battle on have ski-lifts to the top.
Fred Christ Trump, his son, the president’s father, turned 36 a few weeks before bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. He would have been older than most who signed to fight. The path to patriotism was open still. Henry Fonda joined the U.S. Navy in 1942 when he was 37 and saw action in the Pacific. Jimmy Stewart, another Hollywood star, flew B-24 bombers over Germany at 36. Fred wasn’t interested in fighting and eventually died peacefully in his bed, aged 93.
President Trump had a chance to serve, turning 18 in 1964, just as the conflict in Vietnam was heating up. He avoided tramping through rice paddies and hacking though jungle, piling up five draft deferments all by himself.
Don Jr. and Eric might have rallied to the flag after 9/11.
They were the perfect age to join the fray. Neither had any interest in getting
the desert sands of Iraq in their gelled hair or humping weapons and gear up
the side of godforsaken mountains in Afghanistan. The only mountains on which
any of the Trumps have ever done battle have ski-lifts to the top.
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Wounded Marine in Afghanistan. Some put their lives on the line; some just talk. |
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