VA Sec Robert Wilkie’s Defense of Nazi POW Gravestones Dishonors Memorial Day Week
Swastika and pro-Hitler Creed Likely Violate Federal Law
The headstones of World War II German Prisoners of War buried in American military cemeteries adorned with swastikas and inscriptions that the dead German buried on hallowed American ground died for his country (Nazi Germany) and for his Führer (Adolf Hitler) may be illegal.
However, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie has cited federal law in defense of these improbable memorials to Nazi Germany. His bizarre defense of grave markers scarred by the Nazi swastika continued into the Memorial Day week, when Wilkie testified before Congress. The Veterans Affairs Secretary became an advocate for the preservation of the offensive tombstones in the name of both American history and the American law.
Cynically, Secretary Wilkie attempted to hide behind the aegis of the American legal tradition, a legal system based on principles of equality, principles often imperfectly honored in practice, but principles that over 100,000 American military personnel perished to defend on the Western Front during World War II. They had taken an oath to do so when the entered military service.
Those who died included African Americans, Jewish Americans and others deemed “sub-human” by Adolf Hitler, whom Third Army commander George S. Patton, Jr. called “a paper-hanging son of a bitch.”
A Tale of Three Gravestones
How did an Iron Cross with Nazi Swastika wind up on memorials marking two graves in Texas and one in Utah? These three gravestones of German POWs apparently are the only ones adorned with the Nazi swastika in American military cemeteries discovered so far. How did they get there?
Two of the headstones are located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; the third is located at Fort Douglas Post Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The two headstones in Texas are different than the one in Utah. The stone in Utah is a bespoke job, and was bought by the dead POW’s comrades, according to the St. Louis Tribune. The Texas grave markers are identical to the ordinary memorials that make up the vast majority of markers in federal “Gardens of Stone.” Except for the swastikas and inscriptions praising Hitler and Der Vaterland.
The headstone of Alfred P. Kafka at Fort Sam Houston reads “Er Starb Fern Der Heimat Fur Fuhrer Volk Und Vaterland.” That translates as, “He died with honor for his Fuhrer, the people and the Fatherland.”
The Utah stone has no such inscription.
German POWs wound up in camps in the U.S. as the American military decided to ship Allied POWs, including Italians, to The States rather than intern them in camps in the African and European theaters. It was felt that maintaining camps in theaters of war would negatively impact logistics.
German and Italian and even Japanese POWs spent the war in camps in the United States. And some, having died while POWs, will spend eternity here.
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
The controversy over the pro-Nazi headstones was triggered by the shock of a Jewish visitor to the federal military cemetery at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Visiting the grave of an interred American vet, he was was surprised and dismayed to find two gravestones of German POWs adorned with the Iron Cross in which was centered a Nazi swastika.
The outraged visitor contacted the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), and MRFF founder Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein was equally outraged. The MRFF, according to Weinstein, is the “A.C.L.U. for military personnel and veterans” dealing with the encroachment of their First Amendment rights.
Weinstein and the MRFF have fought against the encroachment of religious practices, indoctrination, and symbols at federal facilities. Weinstein has clashed with V.A. Secretary Robert Wilkie numerous times, including the infamous “Bible in a Box” case” at the Manchester, New Hampshire Veterans Health Administration Hospital.
Not only did the V.A. Bible in a Box contravene the U.S. Constitution’s mandated separation of church and state, the story justifying its placement to reach constitutional muster turned out to be a hoax. The defenders of the V.A. Bible in the Box include Vice President Mike Pence.
Mikey Weinstein has managed to attract bipartisan support for replacing the Nazi gravestones with stones that do not bear a hate symbol and a pean to the architect of The Holocaust. However, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie seemingly is determined to preserve the racist iconography.
Defending Holocausts Foreign and Domestic
Robert Wilkie apparently has decided on a strategy of linking the Nazi tombstones to the ongoing controversies over honoring the “heroes” of the former Confederacy, such as Robert E. Lee.
Memorial Day is an evolution of Decoration Day, a day in which the Union dead from the “War of the Rebellion” were remembered. South of the Mason- Dixon line, in the former Confederacy, the rebel dead of the “War Between the States” were similarly honored.
Decoration Days, which existed in various states, featured people decorating the military graves of the American Civil War dead with flowers.
The movement to remove Confederate war memorials as symbols of treason and white supremacy had gained momentum in recent years. Resistance to the removals has triggered violence, most notoriously in the murder of a woman protesting defenders of a Robert E, Lee memorial in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields killed Heather Hyer and injured 28 others by driving his car into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators protesting a “United the Right” rally organized in defense of the Confederate war memorial. Fields was convicted of murder.
The remarks on the murder by President Donald Trump, Wilkie’s boss, that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the Charlottesville protests widely was considered a watershed in American political history. Trump’s equivocation was believed by many to have the effect of exonerating neo-Nazi violence, and as possibly encouraging right-wing terror.
The President recently retweeted a video of one of this supporters saying that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat,” in reference to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was the victim of an assassination attempt.
Lost Causes
Robert Wilkie’s personal history is bound to that of the Confederate States of America. In 1995, Wilkie praised the arch-traitor of the American Civil War, CSA President Jefferson Davis, at an event sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Wilkie stood in front of a statute of Davis at The Capitol and praised him as an “exceptional man” and “a martyr to The Lost Cause.”
Former U.S President Franklin Pierce, whom Jefferson Davis served as Secretary of War and with whom Piece continued to correspond during the Civil War, was nearly lynched the night of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Pierce, a copperhead Democrat who had blamed Lincoln for the war, talked a mob who had converged on his home in Concord, New Hampshire out of taking its revenge on him for supporting rebellion and maintaining contact with the arch-traitor Davis.
“The Lost Cause” is romantic language for the attempt of Davis and other leaders of The Slaveocracy to maintain a feudal economy based on human chattel slavery. Jefferson Davis is considered one of the great champions of white supremacy in American history, leading a rebellion against the United States that cost the lives of 620,000 American military personnel.
The Lost Cause and the Civil War it set in motion was the most expensive war, in terms of the lives of American warriors, ever waged in the country’s history. It accounts for almost half of all the dead warriors in American military conflicts.
Yet, Robert Wilkie defended one of the prime architects of this American Holocaust (both in terms of Civil War dead and the cost of human lives by chattel slavery). Twenty-five years later, he is defending the Lost Cause of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, revered by hard-right reactionaries. The very same Hitler and his regime — a regime judged to be a criminal enterprise at the Nuremberg Trials — that were the perpetrators of The Shoah, the human holocaust that came close to wiping out European Jewry. This was a man and his regime that acted outside the bounds of international law and human decency, and the Nazi swastika was their ultimate symbol.
The Nazi swastika indubitably is a symbol of genocide, of the worst genocide perpetrated in modern human history. As the MRFF’s Mikey Weinstein pointed out on the Matt Connarton Unleashed radio show, if these three German POWs were sent back to Der Vaterland for burial, German law would forbid swastikas or any pro-Hitler, pro-Nazi sentiment from adorning their graves.
Egregious state-supported racism triggering the massive loss of human life apparently leaves V.A. Secretary Robert Wilkie nonplussed (in the American sense). It’s a strange position for a person citing history and the law to take.
Neo-Conderacy and the Republican Party
Citing the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Robert Wilkie claimed to Congress that the federal law mandates that the Veterans Administration preserve the graves. He testified that the law states the V.A. and the Department of the Army must “protect historic resources, including those that recognize divisive historical figures or events.”
When the law was passed one year after the centenary of the War Between the States, it was addressing the American Civil War, which still engendered bad blood between the “Yankees” and the “Rebel” South. It likely was focused on Civil War monuments and other controversial landmarks of historical interest. It is doubtful that 21 years after the worst war in history, in which many member of Congress served, that the intent was to preserve pro-Nazi war memorials masquerading as German POW headstones.
The year 1966 was two years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted against an historic filibuster led by the “Solid South” block of U.S. Senators, the so-called ”Southern Democrats,” who opposed civil rights for African Americans. It was one year after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed over similar Southern opposition.
These acts were the first truly significant civil rights laws to be enacted by Congress since the Reconstruction Era after the War of the Rebellion, when Southern states’ representation in Congress was limited, due to ther treason.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who hailed form Texas, a member of the Confederate States of America a century earlier, muscled the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress. LBJ reportedly lamented that it would cause white Southerners to abandon the Democratic Party. That, indeed, happened, in one generation.
As recent as the early 1980s, many Southerners were still Democrats, as were their representatives in Congress. The Democratic Party was the party of “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. The Republican Party was the party of the hated Lincoln.
Civil rights as championed by Democrats in what are now known as the “Blue States” changed all that. The white South began to flip Republican in earnest after the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan, who beat Georgian Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential race. A former Democrat, Reagan began his post-GOP convention campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the murder of three civil rights workers in the mid-1960s, with a speech on “state’s rights.”
“State’s Rights’ was thinly veiled code for “Segregation.” With Regan pledging the Party of Lincoln to anti-African American racism, The Solid South was transformed into — an until recently — solidly Republican bastion.
It was until very recently as solidly Republican as it was once solidly Democratic, in the days when Congressional Democrats condoned legal racism against People of Color, though that is changing.
Ronald Reagan exorcised the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, from the Grand Old Party, enabling the Southern whites to embrace a party they despised for more than a century. But Democrats, bolstered by the African American vote, are making inroads in states of the old Confederacy in the 21st Century.
That is why the neo-Confederate issues apparently are vital to the Trump Administration for shoring up Southern white votes for Republicans, by using them as a trigger issue. This may be one of the drivers of V.A. Secretary Robert Wilkie’s defense of Nazi gravestones polluting sacred American soil.
Many critics of the white supremacy represented by the historic Confederacy and the modern neo-Confederate movement have pointed out similarities between the racist laws of the post-Reconstruction South and Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Many historians claim that the infamous Nuremberg Laws of Hitler, were influenced by the American South’s racist Jim Crow legal code.
Slavery in America was called the “Peculiar Institution.” The peculiar behavior of Veterans Secretary Robert Wilkie provides support for this theory.
Nazi Headstones and the Law
Robert Wilkie is using the law to defend the preservation of Nazi headstones. A question Secretary Wilkie should be asking: Do these three grave markers violate federal law?
The U.S. Code strictly regulates what can appear on military headstones, and having an Iron Cross with Swastika and pro-Nazi ode inscribed on a headstone were unlikely to be approved by American authorities at the time the German POWs were interred. Though the laws regulating grave markers have liberalized since the World War II era, at least two if not all three stones likely violate federal law.
While the U.S. Code does allow the grave of an American veteran to display a device indicating the award of a medal, traditionally, only the Congressional Medal of Honor was allowed on veteran grave markers.
The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest award for bravery in combat awarded by the United States. It is more exclusive than the equivalent of other countries, such as the Victoria Cross (VC) of the United Kingdom.
If the two Germans buried at For Sam Houston won an Iron Cross 1st or 2nd Class during World War II, it is unlikely that the device would have been put on their graves. At the time, such an award would not have merited, under extant law, its inclusion on a stone.
The headstones of American veterans, more recently, have featured medals such as the Silver Star. However, anyone who has visited American military cemeteries would have to look very hard to find any device indicating the award of a combat medal, including the Medal of Honor, due to the latter’s rarity.
Expressions of sentiment also were not allowed until recently, as per federal law.
A political statement praising Adolf Hitler would have been considered outlandish in 1947, when the graves of German POWs who died in various American POW camps in Texas were consolidated in a new burial plot at Fort Sam Houston’s cemetery. It is a federal cemetery, governed by federal law. it is hallowed ground.
Nazi Germany’s Order of the Iron Cross
Adolf Hitler reinstituted the Iron Cross medals at the dawn of World War Two. Der Fuhrer himself had won the Iron Cross Second Class in 1915 and the Iron Class First Class in 1918. Part of the Bavarian military forces, Hitler was also awarded the Bavarian Cross of Military Merit, Third Class with Swords in 1917.
Hitler’s Iron Cross medals were based on the old World War One design, with the exception that they had a Nazi swastika placed in the center of the cross. A date also was inscribed on the Iron Cross First Class and higher awards: 1939.
The Great War Iron Cross had featured “1914,” the year “The Lamps Went Out Over Europe.”
As part of his new scheme of military awards, Hitler engendered the creation of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, a higher medal than the Iron Crosses First and Second Class. The proponent of a “National Socialist” philosophy that claimed to elevate the common man, Hitler was no fan of the Pour le Merite award (the famous “Blue Max”) of World War One.
Pour le Merite was an order of the Prussian military, and also the German Empire military that Kaiser Wilhelm II nominally commanded, During the First World War, the constituent Kingdoms of the German Empire such as Bavaria and Saxony had their own awards, a state of affairs that came to an end with the 1918 surrender.
The Iron Cross award was abolished in 1918, as part of an attempted demilitarization of Germany.
Hitler was no fan of such an “aristocratic” award as The Blue Max, with its memories of the defeated Empire. However, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross also is based on a Prussian medal, as Hitler was no stranger to serving the interests of the post-Great War patrician class that dominated industry and business, and that came to support him.
The Knight’s Cross was higher in precedence than Iron Cross, First Class. Still higher was the Grand Cross, the summit of Hitler’s Order of the Iron Cross.
There was only one recipient of the Grand Cross, Hermann Göring, who was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to execution.
Göring beat the hangman’s noose by committing suicide.
Medal of Honor Equivalent?
According to the St. Louis Tribune, the grave stone of German POW Paul Eilert in the military cemetery at Ford Douglas in Salt Lake City is adorned with the device for the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, with oak leaves. The oak leaves, of course, raise it in precedence.
Higher in precedence, still, are the Knight’s Cross with oak leaves and swords; the KC with oak leaves, swords and diamonds; and the KC with golden oak leaves swords and diamonds. (Luftwaffe pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the sole recipient of this, the second highest of Order of the Iron Cross awards.)
There were 473 Medals of Honor awarded during World War II. There were approximately 9,000 recipients of the Army’s Distinguished Service Cross and the Department of the Navy’s Navy Cross, the second-highest award for bravery in combat.
Some historians claim the Knight’s Cross is equivalent to the Medal of Honor. During World War II, which lasted 27 months longer for Nazi Germany, 7,161 Knight’s Crosses were awarded. Of that number; there were 863 Knight’s Crosses with Oak Leaves awarded; 147 with the addition of Swords; and 27 with the still higher, featuring oak leaves, swords and diamonds awards.
The fact is, the Knight’s Cross was not Nazi Germany’s highest award, even the rare one bestowed upon fighter pilot Rudel. It can be argued that a Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, even with oak leaves, is equivalent to the DSC/Navy Cross.
If it was practice that only Medal of Honor winners were permitted a device on their gravestones at the time of World War II, it can be debated that putting a Knight’s Cross on a marker, an award that is not equivalent to the Medal of Honor, likely was and remains illegal.
Surely, it can be argued that putting awards for the Iron Cross First or Second Class on a grave marker, on the gravestones of two enlisted men buried at Fort Sam Houston, awards that in no way approach the distinction of the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross or the Navy Cross, likely was and is illegal.
As a stickler for the law, Veterans Secretary Robert Wilkie should look into this issue.
What can’t be argued is that no swastika should be allowed on a grave in a U.S. military cemetery, hallowed ground. The gravestone of the last commander of the 15th Panzer Division provides eloquent testimony to that.
For it is true that while all of Hitler’s Order of the Iron Cross 1939 awards featured a swastika inside the cross, not all German POW graves featuring an Iron Cross are festooned wth the premier symbol of hate of the last century, if not of all time.
Segregating Nazis from other German POWs
The section in which the German POWs are buried in For Sam Houston was once remote, when it was created in 1947. Over the years, and the seven decades of hot and cold wars that have followed, more veteran burials mean that vets have been buried among the Nazis.
For Jewish veterans, or the descendants of Jewish veterans visiting Fort Sam Houston, to see a Nazi swastika, supreme symbol of history’s greatest anti-Semite and his Nazi Party that was determined to extirpate Jews from the face of the earth, triggers psychological harm. The Nazi swastika is a symbol that can trigger PTSD reactions not just in Holocaust survivors and their descendants, but in those whose ancestors died to wipe out Nazism, or just ordinary people opposed to race-based hate.
The German POW camps of World War II in America had to contend with the problem of Nazis persecuting and even murdering their fellow German POWs who were anti-Nazi, indifferent to Nazism, and/or too cooperative with American authorities. The rabid Nazis had to be weeded out and segregated in many American POW camps housing German enemy prisoners.
Thus, one could argue that among the ironies of this strange situation is the fact that there was even civil war among German POWs in American camps! And deadly Nazi aggression that had to be stopped. How likely is it that, in the context of the times, Nazi swastikas would be tolerated in American military cemeteries?
In the context of the United States participation in the Crusade in Europe (General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower’s term for the fight against Hitler and the Nazis) and the American camp administrators fight against the depravities of Nazi POWs, it is inconceivable for graves from the immediate post-war period to be adorned with Nazi swastikas.
It was inconceivable, in 1935, for a Nazi swastika to adorn a monument in an American military cemetery honoring dead German POWs buried there. Thus, there is no swastika on the memorial to German POWs at the Chattanooga National Cemetery in Tennessee, a pillar donated by Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
This memorial honors German veterans of the “World War,” which in 1935, had yet to have a large capital “I” hung after it, which happened four years later, after Herr Hitler launched the Second World War that claimed 50 million lives.
Secretary Wilkie’s Sensitivity
It is remarkable that Adolf Hitler would be more politically astute, and more attuned to the sensitivities of American people, than is Donald Trump’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie.
World War Two began for the United States, de facto, on December 7th, 1941, when the Empire of Japan, a fascist country in league with Hitler’s Nazi Germany, executed its sneak attack on Peal Harbor.
The following day, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his famous “Day of Infamy” speech, calling on Congress to declare war on Japan. The Senate voted 88–0 to approve the declaration of war, and the House voted 388–1 for war. (Pacifist Jeannette Rankin was the sole dissenter. She had also voted against the 1917 American declaration of war against Imperial Germany and its allies.)
Three days after that, der Führer, the dictator of Nazi Germany, declared war on the United States, in a speech before the Reichstag. There was no vote, naturally, as Hitler was supreme. Democracy had been killed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler in 1933, the first of his many murders as the newly crowned head of the Thousand-Year Third Reich.
In his speech declaring war, Hitler attacked President Roosevelt and “the Anglo-Saxon Jewish-capitalist world.”
Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States is considered one of his great blunders, as he could have waited and American sentiment at the time favored focusing its efforts on Japan and the Pacific. The conflict with the United States might have been put off. But Hitler just couldn’t wait.
His Thousand Year Reich had less than four years left, though in the federal military cemetery at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, his memory and legacy lives on, due to the sufferance of Veterans Secretary Robert Wilkie.
The High Price of Hate
The Find a Grave database of Axis Powers POWs’ gravestones, has 516 memorials. Most of them are Germans. A perusal of the database reveals that Alfred P. Kafka’s grave at Fort Sam Houston is the sole stone out of approximately 450 for which there are individual pictures adorned with an Iron Cross with Nazi swastika. It also is the only gravestone that has a message on it.
Of the few German POW graves that do have a device on them, it is the Roman Cross that traditionally indicates the dead professed the Christian faith that adorns it. There are no other inscriptions of any kind on all the other stones, other than the standard name, dates of birth, and identifying the dead’s country and service on any of the other grave stones.
Only one other grave in the database is adorned with an Iron Cross. That is the grave of Generalleutenant Willibald Borowietz, the commander of the 15th Panzer Division of the Afrika Korps. Borowietz became a POW when the Afrika Korps surrendered in 1943. He is the highest ranking German POW buried at Fort Sam Houston’s military cemetery.
Borowietz won both the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class during the First World War, and won additional Iron Crosses of the 1st and 2nd class during World War II. He also received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, and subsequently, was awarded Oak Leaves for his KC.
That award, is clearly documented,on his stone.
Yet, the Iron Cross incised into his tombstone does NOT have a Nazi swastika in it. The Nazi swastika is considered, commonly, to be the premier hate symbol of our times and the last 100 years, if not of all time.
Ironically, his wife, the mother of his children, was Jewish. She committed suicide to clear the way for her children to be “Aryanized” under the the race laws of Adolf Hitler, which paved the way for the greatest act of genocide in modern history, the destruction of European Jewry.
Generalleutenant Willibald Borowietz followed his wife’s example and committed suicide in 1945. He possibly could not face being repatriated to a defeated Germany. Perhaps the specter of the forced death of his Jewish wife, to “purify” his blood lines along the dictates of this dead commander-in-chief, the suicide Adolf Hitler, weighed heavily on his soul.
The loss of honor of having surrendered may have been a factor in his suicide, but Borowietz was one of many German generals and admirals held as a POW in the United States.
Generalleutenant Willibald Borowietz must have realized that his wife’s suicide and the death of his men and millions of other Germans (let alone the tens of millions of victims of Nazi Germany beyond the millions of European Jews destroyed by Hitler’s madness) was for nothing. He likely could not go on living with that.
Memorial Day and Secretary Wilkie
The memorial of this winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves does have an Iron Cross incised on it, but the Nazi swastika that condemned his wife and six millions of her fellow Jews, over 10 million non-German non-combatants, and millions of Allied soldiers to death, is absent.
This is testimony to the fact that no Nazi swastika is needed on the device to honor an Iron Cross winner.
The lack of the swastika on Generalleutenant Willibald Borowietz’s may well be the last act of honor connected with this failed servant of Nazi Germany’s Fuhrer.
Ironically, three-quarters of a century later, when anti-Semitism in America is at unprecedented levels, the head of the United States agency that serves veterans including the war dead similarly can’t find within himself the honor to eliminate the supreme insult to the half-million American military personnel who became casualties of Hitler in the European Theater. Among those half-million victims of Nazi aggression are over 100,000 who performed the ultimate sacrifice, to see that Nazi Germany and Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich was terminated with extreme prejudice.
Their memory deserves better than the dishonor Robert Wilkie has brought down upon not only the Department of Veterans Affairs, but on the entire process by which we memorialize American veterans and, indeed, all veterans interred on hallowed ground in military cemeteries. For the presence of the swastika not only insults victims of Nazi genocide and their families, and the Americans who died because of Nazi aggression and their families, but the German POWs persecuted and murdered by Nazi true believers in POW camps on American soil and their families.
The display of the Nazi Swastika on hallowed ground is an offense against humanity. It is a symbol of shame.
That Robert Wilkie’s defense of Nazi memorials occurred during the Memorial Day week only compounds the shame.
Enemy of Liberty
In a statement issued by the Military Religious Foundation at the end of Memorial Day Week, MRFF President Mikey Weinstein criticized Robert Wilkie for “fail[ing] to disclose his membership in the Confederate Memorial Committee and omitt[ing] his event speeches from responses asking for the details on them.”
Weinstein also scored Wilkie for “publicly call[ing] Civil War-era civl right activists laboring to abolish slavery the names that clearly apply, instead, to him. It is VA Secretary Robert Wilkie who is ‘radical’ (in his support of the Nazis) and is likewise ‘mendacious’ as to the falsehoods and deceptions he has delivered to the United States Congress and, thus, the American people.”
A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, American veteran Mikey Weinstein said, “Indeed, it is VA Secretary Wilkie who is the true ‘enemy of liberty.’”
