The Endless Wars, So Bad
By Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
These were the endless wars, so bad, so bad. I’d visit soldiers
at Walter
Reed Hospital, where the doctors are truly fantastic
what they can do,
but I’d see these young people that were just
blown to pieces, and it’s
so sad. 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 the military, the soldiers, would take that coffin and
walk it
off the plane. 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.” I said, “General, I’m having a great conversation.”
And the
mothers oftentimes would say, “Oh, my son was such a great
football
player. Sir, he had an arm that was so powerful. He was
so strong and he
could throw a ball so far. He was such a good player,”
or other things.
They’d tell me these stories. They just were so in love
with telling the
stories about their son or their daughter, in some cases,
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,
that big back door, right,
would open up from this incredible, powerful
machine that can lift up
Army tanks like it’s nothing. And it 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,
and would jump onto
the coffin, and they wouldn’t do a thing, 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, and we can’t do that.
