soldiers families represent the best of US, says Obama

Washington - US President Barack Obama said on Monday that the families of soldiers killed in conflicts "represent the best" of the country, alluding to recent criticism of the Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, against parents a Muslim military killed in Iraq.

"No one gave more for our freedom and security that our families golden star," as it is known in the country families with children killed in wars, the president said in his speech in Atlanta during the 92nd American Veterans Disabled Convention.

Not to mention Trump, Obama referred to the controversy generated so this weekend by tycoon after insulting Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Pakistani immigrant parents and the captain of the army Humayun, killed by a car bomb in 2004 in Iraq.

The president stressed that families like Captain Humayun Khan are "a powerful reminder of the true strength of America.".

"Our families golden star made sacrifices that most of us can not even imagine," he said.

"We must do all we can for these families and honor them and feel honored by them," Obama added.

Trump won critical of much of the summit of his party and military families to confront the parents of Khan, who spoke last week at the Democratic National Convention, which nominated Hillary Clinton as presidential candidate of the party.

In an interview with radio station "ABC News" this weekend, the manager of the casino said that when the father of the military, accompanied by his wife, said he had not sacrificed nothing compared to his dead son, was wrong because he had worked "very hard" and created "thousands of jobs".

The analogy between a war hero who died after his men away from danger, and a tycoon who avoided going to the Vietnam War by a bunion problem did not take well in the United States.

Also bothered much your suggestion that the wife of Khizr Khan did not speak at the event because they left him, perhaps because of its Muslim condition.

"His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say (...). They may not have left him say anything (...). It was very quiet and looked like it had not nothing to say, "said the billionaire" ABC News ".

Comments Trump are unexpected for a presidential candidate by the reverence that lends in the US to parents of soldiers killed in conflicts, and represent a breach of a red line in the world of politics in the country.