Last night the real Donald Trump finally stood up. If he can show the world the same compassion he showed Ryan Owens’ grieving widow, and live by the same code as the SEALs, he can truly make America great again
By PIERS MORGAN
DailyMail.com
1 March 2017
The Navy SEALs have their own Code.
‘In times of war or uncertainty,’ it starts, ‘there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer the nation’s call. A common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands to serve the American people and protect their way of life.’
Navy SEAL senior chief petty officer William ‘Ryan’ Owens was such a man.
This heavily-decorated hero was killed in the recent terrorism-related Special Forces raid on a target in central Yemen, the first United States combatant to die under the authority of President Donald Trump as Commander-in-Chief.
Owens was married with three children.
Last night, his widow Carryn attended President Trump’s speech to the Joint Session of Congress and became part of the single most moving and memorable moment ever that great institution has surely ever witnessed?
It was a moment that defined Mrs Owens, an astonishingly brave and dignified woman.
It was a moment that defined her equally brave and noble husband.
It was a moment that defined President Trump’s new presidency in a way perhaps even he hadn’t realised was going to happen.
And it was a moment that defined America.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I shed a tear watching the extraordinary scenes as they unfurled.
When you come from a military family like mine – my brother is a serving British Army Officer – then you are acutely aware of the ultimate sacrifice made by our armed forces when they are sent into battle.
For every soldier who dies, there is a family back home that partly dies too.
The Owens family will never be the same again.
That much was clear as we watched poor Carryn’s tortured face.
Yet now, even in her deepest, darkest grief, there came something to make her battered heart burst with pride, inspiration and gratitude.
It came from the most unlikely source.
Donald Trump waged an unprecedentedly uncompromising and divisive election campaign, and his first few weeks as President have been conducted in similar tone.
For his friends like me, it’s sometimes been hard to reconcile this ruthless, polarising and often brutal character with the far less aggressive and more human man we know personally.
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