Here's a great story about George W. Bush, one of our greatest presidents:
At Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC recently
the Sergeant Major of the Army Jack Tilley was with a group
of people visiting the wounded soldiers.
He saw a Special Forces soldier who had lost his right hand
and suffered severe wounds of his face and side of his body.
The SMA wanted to honor him and show him respect
without offending, but what can you say or do in such
a situation that will encourage and uplift?
How do you shake the right hand of a soldier who has none?
He decided to act as though the hand was not missing and
gripped the soldiers wrist while speaking words of comfort and
encouragement
to him.
But there was another man in that group of visitors who had even brought
his
wife with him to visit the wounded who knew exactly
what to do.
This man reverently took the soldiers stump of a hand in both of his
hands
bowed at the bedside and prayed for him. When he finished the prayer he stood up, bent over the soldier and kissed him on the head and told him that he loved him.
What a powerful expression of love for one of our wounded heroes!
And what a beautiful Christlike example!
What kind of a man would do such a thing ?
It was the wounded man’s Commander-in-Chief,
George W. Bush; President of the United States.
At Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC recently
the Sergeant Major of the Army Jack Tilley was with a group
of people visiting the wounded soldiers.
He saw a Special Forces soldier who had lost his right hand
and suffered severe wounds of his face and side of his body.
The SMA wanted to honor him and show him respect
without offending, but what can you say or do in such
a situation that will encourage and uplift?
How do you shake the right hand of a soldier who has none?
He decided to act as though the hand was not missing and
gripped the soldiers wrist while speaking words of comfort and
encouragement
to him.
But there was another man in that group of visitors who had even brought
his
wife with him to visit the wounded who knew exactly
what to do.
This man reverently took the soldiers stump of a hand in both of his
hands
bowed at the bedside and prayed for him. When he finished the prayer he stood up, bent over the soldier and kissed him on the head and told him that he loved him.
What a powerful expression of love for one of our wounded heroes!
And what a beautiful Christlike example!
What kind of a man would do such a thing ?
It was the wounded man’s Commander-in-Chief,
George W. Bush; President of the United States.
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