President Joe Biden is under fire for looking at his watch during Sunday’s ‘dignified transfer’ onto American soil of the 13 American troops killed in Thursday’s Kabul suicide bomb attack<\/p>\n
The sister of one of the 11 Marines killed in the Kabul suicide bombing told President Joe Biden to ‘burn in hell’ as she left the dignified transfer of remains ceremony on Sunday, according to a Tuesday report.<\/p>\n
Some parents and families further detailed their observations and interactions with Biden during the dignified transfer of service members’s remains arriving back on U.S. soil from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, told The Washington Post that he showed a picture of his son to Biden and told the president: ‘Don’t you ever forget that name. Don’t you ever forget that face. Don’t you ever forget the names of the other 12. And take some time to learn their stories.’<\/p>\n
He recalled that Biden didn’t seem to like those comments.<\/p>\n
‘I do know their stories,’ Schmitz detailed that the president shot back.<\/p>\n
Schmitz said that a sister of a fallen troop yelled at the president after receiving the remains on Sunday: ‘I hope you burn in hell! That was my brother!’<\/p>\n
‘I can’t fault her for it,’ Schmitz told the Post without identifying the relative who screamed at the president. ‘We all lost somebody.’<\/p>\n
The families gathered in Dover, Delaware on Sunday where the remains of the 13 troops who died in a suicide bombing near the Kabul airport on Thursday arrived. Biden was at the base for the dignified transfer of the fallen.<\/p>\n
Marine Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum’s family was also at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday as his remains returned to the U.S. \u2013 and they were given a chance to meet with the president.<\/p>\n
Only McCollum’s widow, Jiennah, accepted the meeting.<\/p>\n
The family told the Post that Jiennah was left disappointed by her talk with Biden<\/p>\n
One of McCollum’s sisters, Roice, said her brother’s widow thought Biden sounded scripted in their few-minute conversation.<\/p>\n
Roice said that during the meeting with Jiennah, Biden showed a ‘total disregard to the loss of our Marine \u2014 our brother, son, husband and father.’<\/p>\n
‘He cannot possibly understand,’ Roice said. ‘My dad and I did not want to speak to him.’<\/p>\n
‘You cannot kneel on our flag and pretend you care about our troops,’ she said. ‘You can’t f**k up as bad as he did and say you’re sorry. This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands. The thousands of Afghans who will suffer and be tortured is a direct result of his incompetence.’<\/p>\n