Beau of The Fifth Column

Well, howdy there internet people, it's Belle again.

So today, we're going to talk about the U.S.

removing memorials for Afghanistan veterans.

The flower boxes outside a U.S.

government building had 44 flags placed in them.

The city maintains jurisdiction over the street, but the flower boxes were under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

Residents of the city attached the names of people from their community who were soldiers and were lost fighting between 2002 and 2014 in America's long conflict in Afghanistan to the flags and put them neatly in the flower boxes.

Memorializing the fallen seems like it was just a bit too much for this administration, so the flags were removed.

I'm sure most Americans hearing this are probably pretty upset by this move.

Here's the twist.

The flags were put up in the city of Copenhagen, outside the U.S.

Embassy, and they honored Danish troops lost fighting in our war.

It makes sense.

Denmark had a higher per capita casualty rate than the U.S.

did in our war.

This happened with the backdrop of Trump saying that NATO allies, quote, stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.

I have a whole video on Trump's claim, but just for the sake of clarification, this did not happen.

NATO troops did not avoid frontline service.

After Trump's remark, he tried to walk the comment back with a half-hearted apology, but it was only aimed at the UK.

I said at the time, that wasn't going to satisfy our allies.