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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumKhizr Khan’s loss: A grieving father of a soldier struggles to understand
Editors note: This story was originally published March 22, 2005.Khizr Khan is a lawyer by training and demeanor, an articulate man, a careful and methodical thinker who is trying at 2 p.m. on a Wednesday to make sense of the fact that his 27-year-old son is gone forever.
It's a workday, so he finds someplace quiet, an empty conference room on the 13th floor of the office building where he works near the White House. He shuts the door, sits at a big empty table, picks up a pen.
He and his wife would talk often to their three boys about why they decided to come to the United States, he began. It was the 1970s, and Pakistan was under military rule. They came to Silver Spring to have more freedom and opportunity.
"It sounds cliche," said Khan, 54, "but that is the story."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/khizr-khans-loss-a-grieving-father-of-a-soldier-struggles-to-understand/2016/07/28/18e8139a-552d-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html
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Khizr Khan’s loss: A grieving father of a soldier struggles to understand (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2016
OP
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(5,943 posts)1. Kasich's chief strategist, John Weaver, on Twitter:
"I will take the America of Khizr Khan & his fallen son over Trump's distorted & selfish version every day of the week."
https://twitter.com/JWGOP/status/758843844527915010
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)3. I think we will see more and more of this in the coming months
as Repubs rush to distance themselves from the garbage fire of Trump.
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)2. Thank you for the post.
From the article. "They did not call him Captain Khan," his father said. "They did not call him Captain Khan," his father said. "They called him 'our captain.' "