Why Trump's Arlington Debacle Is So Serious
Briefly

Karen Meredith knows the saddest acre in America only too well. ... "It's not a number, not a headstone," she told me. "He was my only child."
Section 60, where the atmosphere is sanctified but not somber-too many kids, Meredith recalled from her visits to her son's burial site. "We laugh, we pop champagne..."
For Trump, defiling what is sacred in our civic culture borders on a pastime. ... honoring those soldiers wounded and disfigured in service of our country-Trump long ago walked roughshod over all these norms.
Read at The Atlantic
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