FALLEN MARINE'S FAMILY NOT SOOTHED BY BIDEN'S SCRIPTED 2-MINUTE CONDOLENCES

'You can't fuck up as bad as Joe did and say you're sorry':  Suicide bomb victim Rylee McCollum's sister blasts Joe Biden's 'scripted and shallow' chat at Delaware memorial service

 

Daily Mail 

August 30, 2021

 

 

 

                                              Rylee McCollum

 

The sister of one of the 13 US troops killed in an ISIS-K suicide blast in Afghanistan last week slammed President Biden for comments he made while paying his respects Sunday, referring to them as 'scripted' and 'shallow.'  

On Sunday, the remains of Marine Rylee McCollum, 20, were returned to the United States, where Biden, along with McCollum's pregnant wife, Jiennah Crayton, and his sister Roice, received him at Dover Air force in Delaware. 

Biden met privately with McCollum's family, in addition to families of the 12 other fallen service members, before quietly observing flag-draped cases transport their bodies off a plane. 

                          Rylee McCollum and his sister Roice

 

 

Roice, who left the room with additional family members when it came time to meet with the president, told the Washington Post she did not want to speak with the man her family held responsible for McCollum's death.

Crayton did stay to meet with Biden, but left disappointed, according to Roice. 

While it remains unclear exactly what Biden said to the family, Roice said the president brought up his son, Beau, describing his son's military service and death from cancer.

Roice said the conversation, which lasted only a couple of minutes, left 'total disregard to the loss of our Marine.' 

'You can't fuck up as bad as he did and say you're sorry,' Roice told the Post. 'This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands.'    

McCollum was killed in the suicide bomb attack in Kabul on Thursday. He had been in Afghanistan only a few weeks and was expected home in October.  

His wife Jiennah, who goes by Gigi, is expecting their first child next month. 

 Jiennah 'Gigi' Crayton is expecting the couple's first child next month

 

She wrote on Facebook on Friday: 'I lost my best friend. And nothing will ever make that hurt less. He would've been the best dad.

'I wish he could see how much of an impact he made on this world. I'm so proud to call him my husband.

'Much love to the other families affected by this. They are all heroes forever.'