Dignified transfers are solemn movements for military members who lost their lives overseas. They involve flag-draped caskets for the fallen and a trained carry team of seven people who execute precise movements to carry the casket off an aircraft at Dover, home of the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations and America's sole port mortuary.
Thanks to my grandfather, money, in my family, was the only currency, which is to say that money was not only more important than everything else-love, kindness, affection-it stood in for everything else. You could also gauge your worth by how much was given to you-or was not given to you, as the case may be.
While it's fine to call for civility in our politics, it's not helping when the primary source of that incivility, Trump, gets a pass for childishly calling our governor Gavin New-scum while denying federal aid for one of the worst natural disasters in state history based on petty politics. There have never been such lopsided expectations in our political reporting. There needs to be one set of standards that our leaders are held to.
That is a distraction. All of it is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation, your life, has not gotten better, Obama said. He continued, saying the Trump Administration was too worried about helping the wealthiest, most powerful people in the country while the average citizen's bills are still going up and while the program that helps your kid with special needs just got gutted.
