Captain Humayun Khan killed 12 years ago U.
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Posted On: 08/02/2016 5:26:44 PM
Captain Humayun Khan killed 12 years ago
U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan was killed in Iraq in 2004 when a car blew up after he told his troops to stand back. He took 10 steps forward to check out the suspicious vehicle himself, saving the lives of the soldiers he supervised.
Captain Khan’s heroism was highlighted by Hillary Clinton on July 28 at the Democratic National Convention. His father, Khizr Khan, took the stage with Khan’s mother, Ghazala Khan, and movingly described their son’s sacrifice for the United States.
At one point, Khizr Khan waved a copy of the U.S. Constitution and demanded that Republican nominee Donald Trump honor the sacrifice of his son, who was a Muslim. Khan previously told the Washington Post that he moved to America in the 1970s for “freedom and opportunity” because his native Pakistan was under military rule. Khan has continued criticizing Trump since the Convention, leading to a war of words with the Republican nominee that has earned Trump more controversy.
Donald Trump, have you even read the Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy,” he said. At another point in the speech, he said, “If it was up to Donald Trump, [Humayun] never would have been in America. Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims. … He vows to build walls and ban us from this country.”
Who is Humayun Khan?
Here’s what you need to know:
1. Humayun Khan Was Born in the United Arab Emirates But Came to the United States as a Child & Taught Disabled Children How to Swim
2. Humayun Khan Enlisted in the U.S. Army After Graduating From the University of Virginia & Read Books on Thomas Jefferson
3 Captain Khan Saved His Troops by Telling Them to Stay Back as He Went Forward to Investigate a Suspicious Vehicle
4. Khan Was Posthumously Awarded the Purple Heart & Bronze Star for His Heroics in Iraq
5. Khizr Khan Called Donald Trump ‘an Ignorant, Divisive Manipulator’ & Said he Has a ‘Black Soul’ & Ghazala Khan Wrote an Op-Ed Criticizing Trump
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