The mother of six-year-old Christian Jacobs, the boy who shared a hug with President Donald J. Trump, told RedState she and her son still remember with fondness that 2017 Memorial Day at her fallen Marine husband’s Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, gravesite.
“It was very sincere,” said Brittany Jacobs, whose husband Marine Sgt. Christian Jacobs was killed during an Oct. 24, 2011, premobilization training event at the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, also known as 29 Pines, because it is in Twentynine Pines, California.
Jacobs said Trump was taken in by her son.
“Trump came to him with a sincerity, caring, genuine, heartfelt,” she said. “He hugged him the next time we saw him.”
The professional photographer said she had no idea they would encounter Trump that Memorial Day.
“Every year when we go there and…
