Washington – President Donald Trump treated four World War II veterans to an Oval Office meeting Thursday, fulfilling a birthday wish for 95-year-old Allen Jones and giving three other veterans age 100 and older a day to remember.
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One of the men, 101-year-old Floyd Wigfield, managed to win a promise from the president for a return flight on Air Force One following this June’s ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. “We’ll work that out,” Trump said. “You’ll like Air Force One.”
Trump had met Jones at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention last year and Jones asked to spend his birthday with the president. Trump looked happy to oblige, joking with the men and their families, and asking each one to say a few words.
Sidney Walton, 100, and a medic in the war, told the president he joined the Army to fight Hitler, prompting Trump to reply: “That was a good reason.”
Walton is on what his family called the “No Regrets Tour,” a personal mission to visit all 50 states and the White House to educate Americans about World War II veterans.
Paul Kriner, 103, told the president he participated in 517 days of combat. The president told him he didn’t look a day over 90.
Kriner and Wigfield are working with the Greatest Generations Foundation, which provides veterans with the chance to memorialize their stories and find closure by returning to visit where they served.
Trump described the men as “great heroes, great warriors, highly respected.”
Fools. They should have gotten some quack to diagnose heel spurs for them and they could have stayed home while John McCain’s father went off to fight.
To all of you guys complaining about the young men who dodged the draft in Vietnam, how can you compare ?
Ww2 was a just cause anybody with hands and feet wanted to join to stop the nazi snake, on the other hand why should young men wanna go to a conflict area for no apparent reason, with their hands tied by politicians and get slaughtered in the jungles?
I agree with #3. Hey, #1 and #2 , unless you were in combat in Vietnam, you have ZERO right to criticize Trump or others of his generation who did not go there. There were millions of draft age men between 1964-1973, who were never sent to Vietnam. Therefore, after 50 years, it is about time, this stupid debate ended.
Again, something Obama never did. Just proving once again which man loves the US