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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nApparently, the media is working overtime to avoid talking about the candidates and the issues, rather they’re all wrapped up in trying to paint the Democrats as the more patriotic candidates. That’s a fruitless endeavor. Anyway, ABC News<\/a> wants to talk about Donald Trump’s military service. To segue into the subject, someone gave Trump their Purple Heart and, typically, Trump can’t just say “thanks”;<\/p>\n Speaking at a rally in Ashburn, Virginia, the GOP presidential nominee said that a man approached him and handed him his purple heart.<\/p>\n “He said that\u2019s my real purple heart — I have such confidence in you. And, I said, ‘Man that\u2019s like, that\u2019s like big stuff.’ I always wanted to get the purple heart. This was much easier,” Trump said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n I don’t have a Purple Heart – the closest I got was bashing my face on the Bradley’s Integrated Sight Unit when my fighting vehicle hit an anti-personnel mine at 73 Easting in Iraq in 1991 – I got a bloody nose. That was my only combat wound. <\/p>\n If someone were to offer me their Purple Heart like someone did to Donald Trump, I’d have to turn the offer down. I have oodles of medals that have citations which describe in detail what I did to earn them – but the Purple Heart is unique that it only recounts that the recipient was wounded (or killed) and the date it happened. Only the recipient knows the details, like the POW Medal, that makes those two awards intensely personal and beyond the understanding of anyone else who sees it or touches it.<\/p>\n Obviously, that’s what Trump should have done instead of using it in a speech so ABC News couldn’t use it as an excuse to bring up questions about his draft deferment – which we already talked about in May<\/a>. <\/p>\n Funny how ABC news can’t think up an excuse to talk about Hillary’s attempt to join the Marine Corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"