My Wife and I, along with a friend of hers, went to Ft. Snelling National Cemetery [View all]

yesterday. We visited my wife's father's gravesite and the gravesite of the grandfather of another friend of hers. I would like to have visited my father and mother's gravesite, but that is in California.

Ft. Snelling was crowded with people yesterday. It's more crowded today. People paying their respects to relatives who served in the U.S. Military. Every year they come to do that, which makes an incredible amount of sense.

So, this morning, I read Donald J. Trump's nasty, all-caps diatribe which served as his Memorial Day tribute. The thing is that he has no family members who were veterans of the U.S or any other military. To Trump, veterans are just losers who couldn't get out of serving. Trump, himself, avoided service in the Vietnam War era, the time when I did my four years in the USAF. For him, military service is stupid. Why would anyone do that? he wonders.

And yet, The Ft. Snelling National Cemetery is busy this weekend - full of people who understand the service given by people in their own families, and often by themselves. Trump does not understand that at all. That is why he is an angry, vicious man who has nothing but contempt for those who serve.

More's the pity.