Major General Harold Greene is the highest-ranking officer to fall in combat since Vietnam. The 2-star general was killed in Afghanistan on August 5 and was laid to rest earlier this year at Arlington National Cemetery.
President Obama was too busy golfing at Vineyard Golf Club with elites, such as the World Bank President, to attend. VP Biden was too busy vacationing at the Hamptons to show up.
Not only did Obama not attend, he made no public comment, like he did with Robin Williams, or even order flags to be flown half mast, which he did for Whitney Houston and Nelson Mandela.
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Obuma has all the class of a despot Kenyan.
I NEVER JOINED THE ARMED FORCES BUT I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR THEM AND WHAT THEY DO OUT THERE AND AFTER WHAT I JUST READ I THINK IT’S TIME FOR A NEW LEADER AND NOT JOE BIDEN EITHER.
He didn’t make it to Tray. Martin funeral nor The Young man from SI NYC
A smelly Excuse, Baurfffff
No he didn’t Beverly Corbin Handy: But he made his sentiments known. In this case he said notthing , did nothing and ask no one from his administration to attend. We the soldiers do not exist in his world.
How many lives did he save by bringing them home?
Thanks GOD he has help in not getting any DEM reelected again
Story total BS. The Davis tweet was another matter altogether. I did not pass it on, but it was included in the Legal Insurrection post to which I had linked. Davis stated definitively that Nixon had attended the Dillard funeral in 1970 and Bush had attended the Maude funeral in 2001, a “tradition” of presidential attendance that Obama “bucked” by ignoring the Greene funeral. As it turned out, none of that was true, and Davis, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel who played an important role in the War on Terror and who today teaches law at Howard University, knew it when he wrote it.
Curious about what Davis had said, I looked for any sign that Nixon had attended the Dillard funeral. I went to the Nixon Library website, which has posted the minute-by-minute White House logs of Nixon’s activities. They’re very detailed; if Nixon had gone to the general’s funeral, it would have been listed. I looked through the month after Dillard’s death and found no evidence Nixon had attended. Likewise, it turned out Bush did not attend the Maude funeral.