Letters: Trump, other chicken hawks unfit for presidency
How is it that a guy who was too cowardly to fulfill his lawful obligation to serve his country in Vietnam is now God’s last patriot? Trump got five draft deferments but is now portraying himself as our only great American patriot. He has disparaged a true American hero, John McCain, who was a POW for more than five years, because his heroes don’t get captured.
The term for this is “chicken hawk.” That’s someone who’s hawkish on defense but too chicken to serve. This cowardice and disrespect for those who gave all to their country disqualifies Trump from consideration for president.
Gary L. Cadle
Columbia
This story was originally published April 12, 2016 at 3:55 PM with the headline "Letters: Trump, other chicken hawks unfit for presidency."