I didn't catch her name, sorry, but I'm sure it will become well known in just a few minutes or hours after the video is posted online by MSNBC and then goes viral. At least, I certainly hope it goes viral. No, it wasn't Mrs. Khan, it was another Gold Star mother taking exception to Donald Trump in the main, his booing supporters after that, then the Republican Party and then all politicians who vote for war, specifically the Iraq War.

By word of background, my father was in the service for thirty years and had a chestful of what is referred to as "fruit salad", i.e. a big block of colorful ribbons on his uniform. He is now buried in a Veteran's cemetery. I was a military brat. When I was growing up I went to nine different schools from first grade through high school. I actually lived on military bases a number of times. I personally know what it's like to have the staff car with the chaplain and the two other guys drive up in front of your house. In our case, we were lucky, my Dad was only wounded, not killed. I had friends who were not so lucky. The people who serve, know personally and well what the price is. In case you are wondering, my father was not conservative, he was not authoritarian, he was not a war hawk, he was not Republican. He was great, but no Great Santini. I add this personal bit of biography to provide context to my comments below.

It may be that Trump has finally met his Waterloo in his crazy and wrong-headed and ludicrous attacks on the Khans.

What did the woman in the title of this essay say that was different from what has been said already so effectively by the Khans?

She broadened her outrage out from just Trump, but also to encompass his Party and his supporters and every politician who has not just condemned him but also NOT repudiated him as the Party's standard bearer, which she defined as an outrage as large as Trumps words. She said "You do not serve Trump. You serve the American people. You are not his civil servants, you are our civil servants." (paraphrase from memory). She really called out those Republican Party heads who are not recognizing this incident as the Rubicon that it is.

She also chastised the Trump supporters who booed the military Mom, telling them that they didn't have a clue, that only one half of one percent of Americans are active military and have any idea of the kind of sacrifices the military life involves. (I checked and her figures were right). Going further, she said that all the politicians who voted to going to war in Iraq owed the American people an apology. She talked about veteran suicides and mental struggles that were another cost of war.

It was incredibly powerful. I thank her so much for saying clearly that the problem isn't confined to Trump but to all politicians who send soldiers into wars wars for unjust reasons. In other words, she splattered Trumps sh*tstain onto others who would like like to remain pure and above the fray and simply bray about "honoring our troops" and thanking "the brave men and women who serve" "lay their lives on the line" and all the other empty patriotic blather and flag waving they indulge in in political campaigns. You honor them most by not wasting their lives or treating them as fungible pawns on an international chessboard. I'm looking at you, Democrats and Hillary Clinton.

Now this brings me to another related issue. There is someone else who has disrespected Gold Star families and all those who serve. That person is someone in a position of high trust and authority who betrayed that trust by having highly classified information that potentially could impact the national security of the country on her personal sever and who allowed people without the proper clearances to have access to that information and who created a highly hackable situation which may have benefitted foreign governments and agents who work against our interests We'll never know how bad it was BECAUSE IT'S CLASSIFIED! It's all redacted. Congress can't even see it.

If Hillary Clinton had been SOS while my Dad was serving and seeing combat, she may have put his life at risk. I understand personally how grotesque her security failures are. They can't be whitewashed for me or pooh-pooed and shoved under the carpet or downplayed by her Party and their talking heads. She herself knows her transgressions were so awful, that she will never be able to acknowledge them in public and will be forced to lie openly about them for the duration of her campaign and her Presidency if she achieves it.

The sacrifices of The Gold Star families tells us that there are two highly unqualified candidates running for President: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.