{By BRIAN MCBRIDE/YAHOO NEWS}
Eleven Gold Star Families penned a letter to Donald Trump demanding an apology for “repugnant” and “personally offensive” remarks he made toward the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier who was killed in Iraq during combat in 2004. The letter was published by the progressive political action committee VoteVets.org.
The letter, released Sunday night, comes after Trump’s response to Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who made headlines at the Democratic National Convention last week. Khizr Khan gave a speech in which he called Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S. “unconstitutional,” while making the dramatic gesture of pulling a copy of the Constitution from his pocket and asking Trump directly: “[H]ave you even read the United States Constitution?” Khan went on to say that Trump had “sacrificed nothing and no one,” in a scathing rebuke of the Republican candidate.
On Sunday Trump told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos that he made a lot of sacrifices for the country, including employing thousands of people. Trump also insinuated that Khan’s wife Ghazala, who stood beside him as he spoke, was silent during the speech because of her religion.
