In veiled hit on Trump, Obama says U.S. must honor Gold Star families

President Obama on Monday called for Americans to honor Gold Star families “and be humbled by them,” a veiled but unmistakable swing against Republican nominee Donald Trump’s attacks on the parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq. “Our Gold Star families have made a sacrifice that most of us cannot even begin to imagine,” Obama said in a speech to the National Convention of Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta. The president never named Trump, who has waged a bitter public feud with Khizr and Ghazala Khan. Their son Humayun, a 27-year-old Army captain, was killed by a car bomb in Iraq in 2004.