Haunted me even. A large tattoo of seven beautiful, bright red poppies and, above them, the silhouettes of seven soldiers.

Hegseth, though, dismissed the idea that the tattoo in question was extremist ... result of President Biden’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Elsewhere in his contentious hearing, he ...

“What was unleashed because of what happened in Afghanistan? The Oct. 7 attacks ... discussion turned to one of Hegseth’s many tattoos: a Jerusalem cross of the kind commonly used during ...