Trump’s Military Deferments Inform His Betrayal of the Kurds

Elizabeth Grey
4 min readOct 7, 2019

When I awoke at 3 am and checked the news, foolishly thinking I could go back to sleep, the first thing I thought of was my younger brother’s tattoo.

He got it over thirty years ago, as a young Marine. It’s on his right shoulder. It’s a United States Marine Corps skull and crossbones, with Death before dishonor underneath.

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