VVA: Trump's Attack on Gold Star Family Is Disgraceful and U

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VVA: Trump's Attack on Gold Star Family Is Disgraceful and Un-American

VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA

IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2016

No. 16-21

Mokie Porter
301-996-0901
301-585-4000, Ext. 146

VVA: Trump's Attack on Gold Star Family Is Disgraceful and Un-American

(Washington, DC) -- Vietnam Veterans of America is a non-partisan, war-time veterans' membership and service organization that does not endorse or support political candidates at any level. "However, we cannot remain silent when a Gold Star family member is being publicly denigrated," said John Rowan, National President of Vietnam Veterans of America. "It is especially reprehensible when that individual is seeking to become the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of our nation. To lash out and disparage a family whose son gave his life defending this country is both shocking and disgraceful," said Rowan. And though Trump may never have spent a day in uniform, his disdain for the sacrifice of this young man and all who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our Constitution is singularly un-American."

"VVA joins the chorus of congressmen and senators, veterans, and military service organizations, in condemning the flagrantly disloyal utterances of the Republican Party nominee for President," said Rowan.

"We couldn't agree more with Senator John McCain, who spent five years in a prisoner of war camp in North Vietnam, that the nomination of Mr. Trump 'is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.' And it was the President who perhaps said it best, added Rowan, 'We have to do everything we can for those [Gold Star] families, and honor them, and be humbled by them.' "

Vietnam Veterans of America is the nation's only congressionally chartered veterans' service organization dedicated to the needs of Vietnam-era veterans and their families. VVA's founding principle is "Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another."

Mokie Pratt Porter
Director of Communications

Vietnam Veterans of America
8719 Colesville Road, Suite 100
Silver Spring, Maryland 20912
301-585-4000 x146

http://www.vva.org/support.html