PRESIDENTIAL RACE | Trump stumps in Cincy

CINCINNATI — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told an audience of military men and women here today he would work to ensure the nation’s children are taught “the incredible achievements of American history, its institutions and its heroes.”

Trump also called for wide-scale reform of the Veterans Administration, along with increased support for the U.S. military, protections for the American flag and recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance.

“We will stop apologizing for America, and we will start celebrating America,” he said. “We will be united by a common culture, values and principles, becoming one American nation, under one Constitution, saluting one American flag – and always saluting.”

He added, “The flag deserves respect, and I will work with the American Legion to help to strengthen respect for our flag. And, by the way, we want young Americans to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.”

Trump offered the comments in Cincinnati on the last day of the American Legion’s national convention, a weeklong event attended by thousands of veterans.

He appeared a day after Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton addressed the same crowd. Afterward today, the billionaire businessman traveled about an hour north to Wilmington for a midday rally.