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MONROE, Michigan (AP) He flipped anxiously between news stations, bracing for an announcement of bombs falling and troops boarding planes destined for the Middle East. It was a nightmare he hoped he would never see idée cadeau bracelet personnalisé again.

Michael Ingram’s son, Michael Jr., died in Afghanistan in 2010 at age 23. Every day since, Ingram has prayed for American presidents to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring every last soldier home. Instead, it bracelet personnalisé ancre seemed to him this week that the United States was edging perilously close to another one.

They may also be politically important come November. Monroe is a swing county in a swing state, part of a cluster of Rust Belt communities along the border of Ohio and Michigan that voted for Democrat Barack Obama but then flipped to help put Trump in the White House in 2016. Its assessment of his performance as commander in chief could decide whether he stays there next year.

Monroe, Michigan, January 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Conversations with people here, including many with veterans and military families, reveal how complex that assessment is. Trump campaign promise bracelet femme pour graver to stop the “endless wars resonated with many, but so did his pledge to answer aggression with relentless strength. Trump supporters in Monroe say they are not against military action. They just want to win and win quickly. They said they trust Trump will.

A week that began with uncertainty and terror ended with Ingram, and others here, seeming to stand more resolutely behind Trump. Iran responded by firing bracelet personnalisé avec lettre cube more than a dozen missiles at American bases in Iraq in its bracelet personnalisé voyage most aggressive assault since seizing the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

A burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike bracelet personnalisé maman pas cher in Baghdad, Iraq, in which Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed January 3, 2020. Wednesday.

“I was proud of Trump because I thought it was going to get a lot worse. I thought it was going to be bombing all night long, and I don’t want anyone to die,” Ingram said of the president he achat style indien collier multicouche longue chaine couleur or fleur pendentifs pour femmes cristal faisant des fournitures resine bracelet personnalisé voted for three years ago and suspects he will again.

His sentiment was repeated by others in this former union stronghold of about 150,000 people, where American flags fly from boheme longues couches coeur fleur cristal croix colliers et pendentifs pour femmes simple couleur argent chaine collier ras du cou colliers poles in lawn after lawn. The cc argent sterling chaine pour collier hommes amoureux chocker colliers collana uomo marie pendentif chaine 925 accessoires l 08 bracelet personnalisé 5 prenom median household income nears $60,000, higher than the national average, even as the area has suffered some of the bracelet personnalisé chaine same blows to its manufacturing economy as other Rust Belt counties.

Larry Mortimer, a 36 year old veteran of the Iraq War, did not vote in 2016. He now considers himself undecided. But this past week pushed him closer to Trump, he said, because the president made America look tough.

“It shows that if you pick on us, we’re not going to let you get away with it,” Mortimer said, “and in bracelet femme gourmette maille singapour 18cm torsadé argent massif turn bracelet personnalisé evenement we’re going bracelet personnalise enfant to show force, we’re not going to back down.”

Larry Mortimer, left, helps Tim Fitzgerald load sleeping bags for the homeless at the Bedford Township Veterans Center in Temperance, Michigan, January 8, 2020. 3umeter multicolore mode charme or 26 alphabet pendentif collier pave zircon initiale lettre colliers couple nom ncollier (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Monroe County, population 150,000, has had six military casualties since 2001, putting it above the national per capita averages.

Places such as Monroe that have seen their sons and daughters die overseas at higher rates voted disproportionately for Trump, according to a 2017 study by researchers from Boston University and the University of Minnesota. Much of the bracelet personnalisé belgique country pays scant attention to the wars, while only a small slice of Americans go to fight. The research found those Americans responded to the politician who promised they would no longer be overlooked, Kriner wrote.

Kriner, now a professor at Cornell University, saw a warning for Trump in his research: Trump risks turning off voters who embraced his pledge to avoid “stupid wars” and being viewed as “another politician who overlooks the invisible inequality grand noble style coreen rouge fleur collier pour femmes maxi charme collier declaration colliers mascarade robe decorative of military sacrifice. (MANDEL NGAN/ AFP)

“For most of the first three years, Trump barked loudly at times, but was quite restrained militarily,” Kriner wrote in an email interview this past week. “But now his saber rattling has crossed over into a dangerous escalation that risks a wider conflagration. I don think voters in these constituencies where Trump made inroads are necessarily anti war. But he might not seem like a breath of fresh air anymore, but rather more of the same.”

After voting twice for Obama, Monroe County swung hard toward Trump, selecting him by a margin of more than 20 percentage points. His victory here was critical to claiming Michigan and the White House.

Andy Dybala went both times for Obama, embracing the Democrat promise of a brighter, more peaceful world. But Dybala grew disheartened, in a large part because of continued military attacks a world away. Now he’s the founder of the Bedford Trump Train, a canvassing group in a township in Monroe County, working to get out the vote for Trump.

The River Raisin flowing east through Monroe, Michigan, January 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

“I don’t want any of my fellow Americans to be over there dying, and I don’t want any fellow earthlings to be in situations where they can’t prosper because we’re in war in their country,” he said. “They’re just going to hate us more.”

Dybala said he trusts Trump’s temperament to steer the US away from war. He thinks the president’s bombastic and mercurial personality is mostly show and that Trump is more level headed than his Twitter account might suggest.

Rita Adler at the bracelet personnalisé petite quantité Bedford Trump Train bracelet personnalisé plaqué or headquarters in Temperance, Michigan, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Dybala partner in the Bedford Trump Train is married to an immigrant from Ghana, Rita Adler, who had nightmares last week because she doesn’t believe Trump has the disposition to negotiate war and peace. Trump has called foreign leaders names and run roughshod over traditional diplomatic niceties.

“I am so scared of Trump,” she said. “You are the father of the land, you have to respect when you talk, so jollia bracelet personnalisé you don’t offend.”

Some who did not support Trump in the last presidential election said they were surprised to find themselves acheter bracelet personnalisé impressed with how he handled the situation with Iran.

In 2016, for the first time in Terry Van Sickle’s 73 years, he did not vote for president. He’s a Vietnam veteran and found both Trump and bracelet personnalisé prénom bébé Democrat Hillary Clinton unpalatable so left his ballot blank. He was stunned as he nouveau avengers 4 endgame captain hero collier thanos noir veuve pierres cristal rond pendentif a breloques hommes femmes mode bijoux watched Trump address to the nation last week…