Two years after a suicide bombing in Kabul took the lives of 13 American service members during the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the mother of 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, who was killed in the attack, blasted the president for falsely claiming to “know how” it felt to lose a child in combat.
“His words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill, and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin,’” Cheryl Rex recalled. “My heart started beating faster and I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer and they were able to be by his side — also wondering how someone could honestly be so heartless to say he knew how I felt a little over 24 hours [after] learning of my son’s death.”
Cheryl Rex, mother of Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola:
“When [Biden] approached me, his words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill & I, know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag draped coffin.'”
“My heart started beating faster & I started shaking, knowing that… pic.twitter.com/lLMRokjEdY
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 7, 2023
A few days prior, Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was injured in the same attack that killed Merola, recounted Biden’s “weird” visit as he was recovering in the hospital.
Vargas-Andrews had lost his right arm in the attack and his left arm was in a cast, but Biden still tried to shake
