@united Horrible experience for my college daughter flying back to school from DC to Columbia, SC. Sat on runway for 30 minutes, no AC and then she lands and her bag doesnโt make it because they had to limit weight and selectively choose bags to offload.
Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution โ including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the headโ all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesnโt like, they will come after them the same way. Itโs outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our countryโs history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesnโt get it. I will fight this with everything Iโve got โ not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump donโt get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
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Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word โWe.โ โWe The People.โ โWe Shall Overcome.โ โYes We Can.โ America is owned by no one. It belongs to all citizens. And at this moment in historyโwhen core democratic principles seem to be continuously under attack, when too many people around the world have become cynical and disengagedโnow is precisely the time to ask ourselves tough questions about how we can build our democracies and make them work in meaningful and practical ways for ordinary people.
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So sad for our country. My family has military ties back to the American Revolution, and it makes me sad to think of all they gave for the country to become this sad state. And yes, this includes recent times like my husband, dad, and grandparents. #realpatriotism