Family will wear title with honor

SUCKERS AND LOSERS:

Lewis A. McDonald, US Air Force Retired, 22 years, 100% disabled,

Agent Orange (Vietnam)

Tommy McDonald, US Army, 15 years, Deceased, Colon Cancer, Agent Orange (Vietnam)

Edward G. McDonald, US Air

Force Retired, 60% disabled, Agent Orange (Vietnam)

Thomas Glenn Sr. (maternal grandfather), Callie McDonald Sr. (paternal grandfather), Allie McDonald (paternal granduncle), World

War I; Thomas Glenn Jr. (maternal uncle), Callie McDonald Jr., Charles Clint McDonald, Lee Allen McDonald (paternal uncles), World War II.

I was raised in Yuma, Ariz., on the corner of Maiden Lane and

4th Street, (Maiden Lane and Giss Parkway). “The Marked House.” My dad, Tommie McDonald, worked for E.F. Sanguinetti, as a janitor (later union laborer) M-S, he cut hair after work until 8-9 p.m. daily and all day Sunday; My mom worked at E.F. Sanguinetti (later Town Shops) as a seamstress, and after work, she cleaned houses, cooked dinner, babysit for various people in Yuma, then came home and finished fixing the dinner that my baby sister and I started after school.

Every Saturday, we would do our grocery shopping at A.J. Bayless, known as the “10 for a dollar store.” My mom would buy 10 loaves of bread, extra peanut butter, jelly, bologna, etc., so that whenever a “Tramp or Hobo” knocked on the “Marked House” door, there was always a sandwich available. Most times, by Thursday or Friday it was mostly down to two pieces of bread with mayo or bacon dripping, but NO ONE went without something to eat.

“SUCKERS AND LOSERS,” Mr. Trump! That is a title the McDonald/ Glenn families will gladly wear with HONOR.

EDWARD MCDONALD YUMA

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE THE LATE SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-Ariz., a former prisoner of war, was once called a “loser” by president Donald Trump, and Trump allegedly called World War I dead at an American military cemetery in France “losers” and “suckers” in 2018.