At a recent debate of Republican presidential candidates, a soldier serving in Iraq who posed a question via video was loudly booed by the audience.

An American soldier serving in a combat zone, who is putting his life on the line every day for our freedom, was booed by an audience of Republicans.

This behavior is beneath contempt. Even further beneath contempt is the fact that not one of the Republican candidates seeking the position of commander-in-chief of our Armed Forces stepped up to defend this American hero. That's just disgraceful.

Tim Taylor, Richland