Pregnant Wife Of Slain Marine ‘Disappointed’ After ‘Scripted and Shallow’ Meeting With Biden
According to a family member, Jiennah McCollum, the pregnant wife of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum was unhappy after meeting Joe Biden during the handover ceremony in Dover.
McCollum found her Sunday encounter with Biden “scripted and shallow.” It was said to have only lasted minutes.
During his talk with the widow, Biden mentioned his son Beau Biden, who served in the military and was elected Attorney General of Delaware before dying of cancer at the age of 46 in 2015.
Lance Cpl. McCollum was 20 years old when he was slain last week at a checkpoint outside Kabul’s airport by a suicide bomber. Jiennah, his wife, is expecting a baby in September.
“He was so excited to be a dad, and he was going to be a great dad,” McCollum’s sister Cheyenne said.
She added, “We want to make sure that people know that these are the kids that are sacrificing themselves, and he’s got a family who loves him and a wife who loves him and a baby that he’ll never get to meet.”
Lance Cpl. McCollum attended Jackson Hole High School, where he was a wrestler and a 2019 graduate of Summit Innovations School in Jackson.
“Saying that I am grateful for Rylee’s service to our country does not begin to encapsulate the grief and sadness I feel today as a mother and as an American,” said Wyoming Schools Superintendent Jillian Balow. “My heart and prayers are with Rylee’s family, friends, and the entire Jackson community.
Sen. John Barrasso, who visited Afghanistan in 2019 with 45th President Trump, said Lance Cpl. McCollum is a “true American hero.”
“Rylee wasted no time answering the call to serve our country, joining the Marines right out of high school,” Barrasso said in a statement. “As Rylee’s dad once said, he was ‘full-blooded red, white and blue.’”
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