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SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is boxed in in at a stoplight.\u00a0 Avery LIBRELLE rides up in between cars on a recumbent e-bike.\u00a0 BERG ponders getting away over the sidewalk, but figures it’s not quite worth it. <\/em><\/p>\n

BERG: (dejectedly, resigned to the inevitable<\/em>). Hey, Aver…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Shut up, Merg. Republicans like you are slandering a good man who served honorably for 24 years in the Minnesota National Guard.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 So you dispute…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Shut up!\u00a0 <\/em>There is no overriding or exception to the honor that must be bestowed on people who serve<\/em> .<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Unless it’s George W Bush.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 He was a silver-spooned coward!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0\u00a0 (Checks traffic.\u00a0 No joy<\/em>).\u00a0 So, to recap, Governor Walz served…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 …with impeccable honor.\u00a0 For 24 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Right. Now – you do <\/em>realize it’s not me saying this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 It’s a bunch of political hacks<\/em>!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 It’s his battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Kolb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And it’s his battalion’s chaplain, Captain Bjertness<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The chaplain of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s field artillery regiment said there is no excuse for the Democratic VP pick to have abandoned his National Guard unit before a critical deployment \u2014 not even running for Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn our world, to drop out after a WARNORD [warning order] is issued is cowardly, especially for a senior enlisted guy,\u201d retired Capt. Corey Bjertness, now a pastor in Horace, North Dakota, told The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bjertness, 61, was the chaplain for the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery, of which Walz was command sergeant major before retiring in 2005, two months before the unit deployed to Iraq. Walz has said he did so to run for Congress, and he was elected the next year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And it’s the guy who replaced him as the Command Sergeant Major<\/a> at the virtual last minute before they went overseas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“He had the opportunity to serve his country, and said ‘Screw you’ to the United States. That’s not who I would pick to run for vice president,” Thomas Behrends, one of the retired officials who signed the letter, told the New York Post<\/em> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They have between them, if I’m doing my math correctly, a bare minimum <\/em>of 55 years of honorable service among them.<\/p>\n

Does that not make their point of view not merely dispositive, but above reproach?\u00a0<\/p>\n

By your logic?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 (Looks around, quietly rides away<\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Recumbents look stupid…<\/p>\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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