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Khizr Muazzam Khan (born 1950) and Ghazala Khan (born 1951) are the Pakistani American parents of United States Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in 2004 during the Iraq War. The couple received international attention following a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention that criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald ...
Khizr Khan, the father of a slain Muslim Army captain who gained national attention by pointedly criticizing Donald Trump during the Democratic National Convention in 2016, announced in an ...
Khizr Khan’s son, 27-year-old Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed while serving in the Army and was awarded a Bronze Star for his actions. The Gold Star parent spoke with The Daily Beast ...
Gold Star families did not invite President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to Arlington National Cemetery by last week to commemorate the third anniversary of the attack at Abbey Gate ...
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [4]The Gold Star Fathers Act of 2014 would include as a preference eligible for federal employment purposes a parent (currently, the mother only) of either an individual who lost his or her life under honorable conditions while serving in the Armed Forces during a war, in a ...
Obama first met Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in the spring of 2004, and was one of several names considered for the role of keynote speaker at the party's convention that summer. Obama was told in early July 2004 that he was chosen to deliver the address, and he largely wrote the speech himself, with later edits from the Kerry ...
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at length about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, during her speech on the final day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention where she formally accepted ...
His father was killed in the Vietnam War six months after Phillips was born, making him a Gold Star Son. [14] His mother married Eddie Phillips, heir to the Phillips Distilling Company and the son of advice columnist Pauline Phillips (popularly known as Dear Abby), [15] in 1972. Eddie adopted Dean, who took the last name Phillips. [16] He was ...