{"id":21696,"date":"2011-01-02T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21696"},"modified":"2011-01-02T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T14:05:54","slug":"fallen-soldiers-family-slighted-by-cantwell-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21696","title":{"rendered":"Fallen soldier&#8217;s family slighted by Cantwell and Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Collins was killed in Afghanistan last month and, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thenewstribune.com\/military\/2010\/12\/30\/his-name-was-sean-and-he-died-for-his-country\/\">The News Tribune<\/a>, were overcome by support of friends and family. But they were underwhelmed by the reaction from politicians;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One slight came in a letter of condolences the family received from the office of Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the Collins family appreciated that Cantwell had taken the time to send a letter acknowledging their son\u2019s sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>But the letter misidentified the slain soldier in its last paragraph, which reads:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, please accept my warmest condolences. May your memories of Bryn and the knowledge that he made a positive impact on the lives of so many serve as a source of comfort to you during this time of sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was dated Dec. 20 and delivered to Sean Collins\u2019 mother, Linda Collins of Yelm. The error conveyed to the family that Cantwell had sent a form letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cantwell, was one of the Senators endorsed by the VFW-PAC, yet her staff couldn&#8217;t find the time to proof read her letter to a Gold Star mother.<\/p>\n<p>But the story doesn&#8217;t end there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The other slight came when [Sgt. Collins&#8217; father, Lt. Col. Patrick Collins (Ret.)] called the White House and asked to have President Obama call his ex-wife, Linda, to talk about their son.<\/p>\n<p>He was told that Obama did not regularly make phone calls to the families of fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Patrick Collins read a story about Obama\u2019s phone call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie. Obama reportedly praised Lurie for giving quarterback Michael Vick a second chance to play football after serving time in prison for running a dog fighting ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat burns,\u201d Patrick Collins said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny soldier that gets killed in action, you\u2019d think the president would be calling someone in the family. There\u2019s no politics in it. His predecessor did it,\u201d Collins said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to mention the countless vacations. Thanks to TSO for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Collins was killed in Afghanistan last month and, according to The News Tribune, were overcome &hellip; <a title=\"Fallen soldier&#8217;s family slighted by Cantwell and Obama\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21696\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fallen soldier&#8217;s family slighted by Cantwell and Obama<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,18,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-support-the-troops","category-vfw-pac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}