President Trump continuously bashes John McCain about various McCain positions that Trump disagrees with, which is somewhat amazing since McCain has been dead for seven months. I believe Trump wants to be in the spotlight all the time and doesn’t care if he receives negative criticism about his comments.
As a former Navy enlisted and officer, I am particularly perturbed with his ongoing disparagement of McCain’s military service. McCain was a Navy pilot who flew missions against the enemy in Vietnam, and unfortunately he was shot down and spent years in a North Vietnam prison. I believe Trump was able to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War by receiving four deferments while in college and a fifth because of a supposed bone spur in his heel.
Trump skated out of military service and is no better than the draft dodgers who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. And now as president he continues with his toxicity.
Donald Moskowitz
Londonderry, N.H.
The writer is a 1963 Penn State graduate.