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joining us now is the editor in chief of "the atlantic kpts", jeffrey goldberg is here.retired marine corp. first lieutenant, former president and general manager of the new york mets, sander alderson is here. plus founder of democratic majority action pac amy mcgrath. sandy, i'll start with you. it's not a typical thing for you to weigh in on politics. explain more what moved you to write this piece and what you find so beyond the pale about this episode. >> i felt i had a somewhat you anemic perspective on this incident, in part, because i served as part of an honor guard in washington, d.c. in the early '70s. my mother and father are both buried at arlington. i have attended many ceremonies at the tomb of the unknown soldier. on all of those occasions, the solemnity of those ceremonies, the privacy, the emotion were the overwhelming, i think, quality of the day and to see a political event of this type taking advantage of arlington as a place of men and women who serve in the military just burned me big time. i felt i needed to write something. so i did. >> sandy, wha