Story highlights Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche's mother says her son died a hero

President would honor her son by taking action, she writes

(CNN) The mother of one of the two men stabbed to death on a Portland, Oregon, train has written a letter to President Donald Trump, calling on him to speak out against intolerance.

Asha Deliverance said doing so would honor her 23-year-old son, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, who was defending two Muslim women on a commuter train from a man yelling hateful words.

"Your words and actions are meaningful, here in America and throughout the world," Deliverance wrote to Trump.

She said her son had died a hero, like Americans honored on Memorial Day.

Also killed Friday night was Rick Best, a city worker who spent 23 years in the military.

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