When a 101-year-old hero who put himself In harm's way and could have easily lost his life in World War II speaks out about the draft dodger Trump, and his cowardice and hubris, one has to pay attention. Hilliard, a Purple Heart recipient, began by saying, "Well, as you just heard, next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944, when I was 18 years old, I was inducted into the Army, and they sent me for basic training to Camp Blanding, which is near Jacksonville, Florida." "And what they taught me to do there was to kill people who had set up detention camps in Germany," he continued. "Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same Camp Blanding in Florida? What remarkable irony." "We in this country have seen a remarkable change. And in Washington right now — and forgive me, I’m gonna use the 'f' word — we have a fascist, a fascist government that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated." "We have been lied to over and over and over again about these camps. Our president said these detention camps were being put up to put in immigrants who had criminal records. We now have about 65–70,000 people incarcerated in these camps." "29% have criminal records. 71% of the people in these camps, even with our country's and our government's statements about why they set up the camps, don’t belong there! 71% of the people in camps don’t belong there, according to the government, and yet they are put there." He closed by saying, "We’ve got to fight. We’ve got to keep fighting. We’ve got to reach people all over this country and tell them, 'Don't look away. See what’s happening.'" People in the comments were incredibly supportive of Hilliard's words. "If a 101-yr-old Veteran who was trained to spot and kill fascists in the Second World War says that we have fascists running our country, who has the knowledge to step up and call him wrong? Nobody," said one person. 'Forgive Me, I'm Gonna Use The F-Word': A Century-Old Veteran Just Delivered The Most Brutally Honest Take On Donald Trump, And He Did NOT Mince Words https://www.huffpost.com/entry/101-year-old-veteran-blasts-trump_n_6a442e9ce4b039eff60646f5.
