‘Don’t you ever forget that name’: Biden’s tough meeting with grieving relatives

Posted on AllSides September 1st, 2021
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(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

President Biden made his way on Sunday around a quiet room at Dover Air Force Base, a chamber filled with couches and chairs, with dignitaries and grieving families huddling together as the president came to speak to them privately, one family at a time.

Mark Schmitz had told a military officer the night before that he wasn’t much interested in speaking to a president he did not vote for, one whose execution of the Afghan pullout he disdains — and one he now blames for the death of his 20-year-old...

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