I'm not upset with the president for honoring that soldier.

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24. Thanks, Randy.. for the

clarification. It's deplorable that St Cory Remsburg was deployed 10 times..

"President and Soldier: 3 Meetings, and a Lesson in Resilience"

"WASHINGTON — Three times, mainly by chance and in very different circumstances, Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg has met President Obama..

Meeting No. 1 Normandy, France, was the site of the first interaction between Mr. Obama and Sergeant Remsburg, where they commemorated the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landing on June 6, 2009.
They were introduced near Omaha Beach in France in 2009, when Sergeant Remsburg was part of a select Army Ranger group chosen to re-enact a parachute drop for celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II. The second meeting came less than a year later at a military hospital outside Washington, where Mr. Obama was stunned to see among the wounded troops from Afghanistan a familiar young man — now brain-damaged, a track of fresh stitches across his skull, and partly paralyzed.

The third time was two weeks ago in a private visit in Phoenix, where Sergeant Remsburg did something that neither Mr. Obama nor military doctors would once have predicted: he stood up and saluted his commander in chief."

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"Former President George W. Bush and other commanders in chief paid many visits to the wounded, but Mr. Obama’s intersections with one warrior’s life-altering path are unusual. Aides could not name any other wounded service member whom Mr. Obama has met three times, nor any other who first stood before the commander in chief in battle-ready prime.


For Sergeant Remsburg, the meetings have been “very humbling,” he said in a phone interview last weekend. For Mr. Obama, the soldier has come to personify the challenges endured by more than 50,000 men and women wounded in the two wars of the last decade, many facing recoveries that “will last a lifetime,” as the president recently said."

the rest..
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/us/politics/obama-and-a-soldier-3-meetings-and-a-lesson-in-resilience.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

Heather Mac http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024405329

St Remsburg