According to Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times, David Rehbein National Commander of the American Legion accepted an apology from Janet Napolitano in a private meeting yesterday;<\/p>\n
“We connected meaningfully about the important issues that have emerged over recent days, and I offered him my sincere apologies for any offense to our veterans caused by this report,” Ms. Napolitano said. “I pledge that the department has fixed the internal process that allowed this document to be released before it was ready.”<\/p>\n
David K. Rehbein, commander of the veterans group, told Fox News he has forgiven the department for the report, but he will not forget it happened.<\/p>\n
“[Ms. Napolitano] said the report was not worthy of the department or the veterans of this country,” Mr. Rehbein said. “She gave us some explanation of how the report went out before it should have been released, before it was properly vetted by the senior leadership of the department. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The key is: Napolitano needs to know that we veterans won’t forget what that report said. We also won’t forget that the Administration thought of making troops with service connected disabilities pay for their own treatment and that the Presidentblew off the Medal of Honor recipients. <\/p>\n
Fox News quoted Mr. Rehbein;<\/p>\n
“She was very sincere,” he said. “She distinctly used the words ‘I’m sorry.’ And to me, that says that’s sincere apology. Her body language, everything about those first few minutes of the meeting told me this was a real apology coming from her heart.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not enough apologies in the world for having thoughts like her office expressed, but we’re all watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"