Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28; Jose Duenez Jr., 25; Edvin
F. Franco, 25; and Dante D. Taitano, 21 were part of the 1st Armored Brigade
Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. They went missing during a tactical
training mission in Lithuania on March 25. Their armored vehicle was
discovered submerged in a peat bog the next day, and it took days to recover
their bodies. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda cared enough to attend their
departure ceremony yesterday as the soldiers' remains were
repatriated.
The “dignified transfer” is one of the most solemn traditions in America — an opportunity for the “commander-in-chief” to publicly honor fallen service members and offer condolences to their families.
Trump skipped it today to play golf and attend a dinner at Mar-A-Lago. It wasn’t a dinner to turn around the stock market — which plummeted another 2,200 points. It wasn’t a dinner to discuss proper ways to handle top-secret “attack plans” or finally work on those “concepts” of a health care plan. It was a golf dinner, for him at his own club.
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