{"id":117042,"date":"2021-08-30T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=117042"},"modified":"2021-08-30T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:10:18","slug":"kabul-marine-widow-meets-biden-is-unimpressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117042","title":{"rendered":"Kabul Marine widow meets Biden, is unimpressed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pregnant widow of Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum, one of the 13 US servicemembers killed in the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport last week, is said to have met with President Biden when her husband’s remains arrived at Dover Air Force Base. Other members of Rylee’s family declined to meet with the President, rightfully in my mind, since they blame him personally for the loss of their brother, son, and Marine. Once the widow met with Biden she said it was hollow, tone deaf, and he wouldn’t shut up about his deceased son Beau (a veteran who died from a non-service connected brain tumor six years ago).<\/p>\n

Fox News reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The family of one of the Marines killed in Afghanistan last week slammed President Biden\u2019s meeting with the Marine\u2019s pregnant widow as scripted and a “total disregard” to the service member\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Biden traveled to Dover, Delaware, on Sunday to attend the dignified transfer of the 13 service members killed in Kabul’s suicide bombings last week and meet with their families.<\/p>\n

Jiennah McCollum, the pregnant wife of Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, alongside the fallen Marine\u2019s father and sisters, were scheduled to meet with the president, but only Jiennah ended up speaking with Biden.<\/p>\n

Roice McCollum, one of the late corporal\u2019s sisters, told the Washington Post on Sunday that she, her sister and her father all refused to meet with Biden because they held him responsible for their fallen Marine\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Jiennah\u2019s meeting with Biden did not go over well, though, with Roice saying the pregnant widow was frustrated after briefly speaking with the president.<\/p>\n

Roice said the family felt the president\u2019s conversation with Jiennah was hollow and lacking meaning, and said Biden appeared to show a “total disregard to the loss of our Marine.”<\/p>\n

According to Roice\u2019s account to the Post, Biden spoke about the service of his veteran son, Beau Biden, and his death from brain cancer \u2014 a topic Biden also brought up while both addressing the nation after the deadly Kabul suicide bombing and speaking with the new prime minister of Israel.<\/p>\n

“You can’t f— up as bad as he did and say you’re sorry,” Roice said in regards to Biden. “This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands.”<\/p>\n

Paula Knauss of Clearwater, Florida, the mother of 23-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, said she was heartbroken over the loss of her son and eviscerated Biden\u2019s “hasty withdrawal after 20 years of war.”<\/p>\n

“You can’t have a hasty withdrawal after 20 years of war,” she said. “Because it’s beyond me.”<\/p>\n

“It disgraces the name of all those who have fought in the past and who are now on ground, foreign ground fighting right now, my son’s [82nd] Airborne is still there, and they deserve to be protected,” Knauss continued.<\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to Fox News\u2019 request for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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