John Kelly from transcript:

Well, let me tell you what I told him. Let me tell you what my best friend, Joe Dunford, told me — because he was my casualty officer. He said, Kel, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew what he was getting into by joining that 1 percent. He knew what the possibilities were because we’re at war. And when he died, in the four cases we’re talking about, Niger, and my son’s case in Afghanistan — when he died, he was surrounded by the best men on this Earth: his friends.

That’s what the President tried to say to four families the other day.

For the vain, egotistical and unable to empathize, or put themselves in another's place, John Kelly.....what one Marine officer tells another Marine officer about one of them losing a son.....is not what you tell a young pregnant mother of two who just lost her husband.

When what is said doesn't go over well, you apologize and shut up. You don't attack.

That is a fact and has nothing to do with abortions, or the imagined "dignity" replete world of John Kelly's youth.

Mr. Kelly, dignity, honor and respect, go to the powerful man who is big enough to admit his actions caused offense to others, and not use his position or his personal losses, to strike back.

I gotcha!

Trump lies every goddamn day.

But now his Chief of Staff lies?

And I am surprised?

Kelly should be ashamed!

I mean really ashamed!

Screw them all.

I got nothin.

Late to the party here, but interesting that there was an 1860 proposal, the Corwin Amendment, that would have allowed slavery forevermore that Lincoln was down with, but he drew the line (or literally erased the line) that would have extended the divide physically coast to coast - a bridge too far for him. Maybe old news for many, but something new for me... Guess this is the kind of compromise that Kelly is looking for in his life - "half-atrocity is good enough, let's get on with it..."