President Joe Biden has been criticized by the parents of some of the fallen service members who lost their lives in last week's ISIS-K terror attack in Kabul.
Per AP News, of the 13 US troops who died in explosions outside Kabul airport on Thursday, August 26, 11 were Marines, one was a Navy corpsman and another was an Army soldier.
Speaking to Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday, August 30, the fathers of two of the slain Marines shared their accounts of the dignified transfer ceremony in which the troops who were killed in Kabul returned home in their caskets.
The president was present at the ceremony, which took place a day before the damning Fox News interview, but was condemned for appearing to glance at his watch while saluting the slain troops.
Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, and Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover corroborated reports that Biden checked his watch during the ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware - and even claimed it happened more than once.
In fact, Hoover even told Hannity that he refused to meet the 78-year-old Democrat as he didn't want him "anywhere near us."
This is what the fathers had to say:He added: "In reference to the checking of his watch, that didn't happen just once. That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them.
"They'd release the salute, and he'd look down at his watch - on all 13 he'd look down at his watch."
Schmitz told the Fox News commentator: "I actually leaned into my son's mother's ear, and I said, 'I swear to God, if he checks his watch one more time,' and that was probably only four times in.
"I couldn't look at him anymore after that, just especially considering the time and why we were there. It was, I found to be, the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen."
Unlike Hoover, Schmitz did meet with the president - but said it "didn't go well," adding that Biden "talked a bit more about his own son more than he talked about my son, and that didn't sit well with me."
Shana Chappell, a mother of another victim in the Marines, shared her own frustrations over Biden's conduct at the ceremony on Facebook.
In a lengthy post on the platform, Chappell wrote:
"Remember I am the one who stood 5 inches from your face and was letting you know i would never get to hug my son again, hear his laugh and then you tried to interrupt me and give me your own sob story and i had to tell you 'that this isn’t about you so don’t make it about you!!!'
"You then said you just wanted me to know that you know how i feel and i let you know that you don’t know how i feel and you do not have the right to tell me you know how i feel!
"U then rolled your f***ing eyes in your head like you were annoyed with me and i let you know that the only reason i was talking to you was out of respect for my son and that was the only reason why.
"I then proceeded to tell you again how you took my son away from me and how i will never get to hug him, kiss him, laugh with him again etc… u turned to walk away and i let you know my sons blood was on your hands and you threw your hand up behind you as you walked away from me like you were saying 'ok whatever!!!'"
Chappell's account on Instagram, owned by Facebook, was briefly suspended when the post gained traction.
According to a statement sent to Breitbart by a spokesperson for Instagram, the grieving mother's account was "incorrectly deleted" and has since been restored.
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