In the military you normally put in paperwork for retirement several months before your retirement date. "Had Walz wanted to retire after 20 years of service, he would not be eligible to do so until at least 7 months and 12 days after his enlistment anniversary date of April 8, 1981, barring further breaks in service or failure to acquire training and participation points to meet his annual obligations." "This would have put his eligible retirement date at Nov. 20, 2001, at the earliest — more than a month after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." Walz chose not to put in retirement after the September 11th attacks... he would have be eligible to retire on November 20th. He chose NOT to put in the paperwork to after September 11th occurred. This article is trying to make a mountain over nothing.
Man who says he accompanied Walz on trip to China calls VP candidate ‘Maoist to the core’ “At night, we’d go out, we’d walk the street fairs. We’d be buying souvenirs and Tim was always buying the little red book. He said he gave them as gifts … I saw him buy at least a dozen on the trip,” he said.
So I assume you just found this on social media and have no legitimate source for it. Let’s see if you can provide a url.
They are printed in Chinese in China Mercor. It's a cheap joke present. I brought back some plus about three hundred business cards for prostitutes that were put under the door of every hotel I stayed in. Some were fridge magnets.