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Hegseth said "family after family" of service members killed urged the administration to “not stop until the job is done." Donald Trump made a similar claim earlier this month.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive.

“What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said.

One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, was among the six crew members killed when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq last week.

Simmons recalled his exchange differently.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

I'm shocked Trump and Hegseth had the balls to face the families. I'm not surprised they lied about what was said.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hegseth musta been drunk as usual

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

come on, don't insult drunk people that way

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 38 minutes ago

No no, they gotta point! I occasionally will finish a project drunk and have no memory of it. Memory loss is just a matter of fact. The hate is self chosen.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

We don't know what the even job is. You won't tell us. Trump doesn't seem to know either. Every day it's, "Maybe we do this, maybe we do that. Depends how I feel. We'll hit them even harder. They haven't seen even a fraction of our might." We're just throwing bombs and bodies at Iran until something happens that we might be proud of. Our soldiers aren't dying for their country, they're dying for a postdated check written by the king of breaking contracts.