Boston Globe: The soldiers Bush didn't visit on Thanksgiving

[lebkuchen]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/12/11/the_soldiers_bush_didnt_visit_on_thanksgiving/

She does not want her name published. She is a nurse for the Department of the Army in Landstuhl, Germany, where casualties from the war in Iraq are treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

"My `Bush Thanksgiving' was a little different . . . I spent it at the hospital taking care of a young West Point lieutenant wounded in Iraq. He had stabilization of his injuries in Iraq and then two long surgeries here for multiple injuries; he's just now stable enough to send back to the USA. After a few bites of dinner I let him sleep, and then cried with him as he woke up from a nightmare. When he pressed his fists into his eyes and rocked his head back and forth he looked like a little boy. They all do, all 19 on the ward that day, some missing limbs, eyes, or worse.

<snip>

Merry Christmas, Mr. Bush.

[baby_bear]

1. Give me a break

<snip from the same article>

It took physical courage for Bush to go to Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day.

</snip>

I'm sorry, but I don't buy that.
The rest of the article is fine.
But I just do not believe that there was anything
personally heroic in that made-for-TV turkey trot.

s_m

[lebkuchen]

3. The Globe writer missed the point of the letter, didn't she.

I sent her one of my own.

[0007]

2. I sent the writer of this article this five minute video

http://www.angelfire.com/creep/gwbush/remindus.html

It goes hand in hand.

[SodoffBush]

4. I just sent your URL to half a dozen people

Did you put it together?

Sobering.