December 22, 2008
Posted by Claire
Bush spent hundreds of hours comforting families of fallen soldiers
This is not going to make the same press coverage as when a pair of shoes got hurled at him, but Bush is at least being recognized for being compassionate to soldiers and the families of the fallen. I know that reaching out to families and wounded soldiers is not as sexy to the media as a single incident of grandstanding via “insult with projectile shoes.”
Enough of that though… this is the side of Bush that has made many people love him — even when they disagree with his policies, they can not disagree with this.
Excerpt
Fox News:
President Bush headed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Monday to meet with wounded soldiers ahead of the Christmas holiday, but that’s only the latest activity in a wide-ranging effort the president has made to comfort the families of the fallen.
According to The Washington Times, the self-described “comforter in chief” said it’s his duty as president to try to help as “best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish.”
The Times notes that people familiar with Bush’s routine say he has written letters personally to every one of the families of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq. The task has taken a toll, and Bush has relied on his wife, Laura, for emotional support, he said.
3 Comments
December 22, 2008
Thank you for posting this. I might have to grab it and post it all over, too.
I don’t pretend to know all about American politics as you all do, BUT I have to say, I have watched President Bush and noted what he has done for our wounded and families of our fallen. For those acts of humanity alone, he will ALWAYS have my gratitude and respect. And no, you will rarely read in the papers of his visits to the wounded, but that makes him all the greater in my eyes. He does it because it is the right thing to do. God bless him…
December 24, 2008
He stopped in Fort Lewis, and then went quietly to the Hospital to meet and talk to the wounded here – no press wanted. This at the time when things were very bleak in Iraq, but he made time to visit off the stage and the camera, always impressed me more than his Bush Doctrine.
December 30, 2008
aww how nice. i never saw that story, except online-sad isn’t it?
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