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Date: February 20, 2007 1:20:53 PM PST
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Subject: "Support Our Troops" ?
MILITARY AMPUTEE UNINVITED FROM BUSH EVENT
BECAUSE THE PRESS WOULD SEE HIM WITH NO LEGS
Feb-18-07, by Cheney Killed Bambi
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?
az=view_all&address=389x243443
I don't think I've ever been as morally ashamed of the Bush
administration as I was after reading this WP article (hat-tip to
Americablog):
Perks and stardom do not come to every amputee. Sgt. David Thomas,
a gunner with the Tennessee National Guard, spent his first three
months at Walter Reed with no decent clothes; medics in Samarra had
cut off his uniform. Heavily drugged, missing one leg and suffering
from traumatic brain injury, David, 42, was finally told by a
physical therapist to go to the Red Cross office, where he was
given a T-shirt and sweat pants.
He was awarded a Purple Heart but had no underwear.
David tangled with Walter Reed's image machine when he wanted to
attend a ceremony for a fellow amputee, a Mexican national who was
being granted U.S. citizenship by President Bush. A case worker
quizzed him about what he would wear. It was summer, so David said
shorts. The case manager said the media would be there and shorts
were not advisable because the amputees would be seated in the
front row..
" 'Are you telling me that I can't go to the ceremony 'cause I'm an
amputee?' " David recalled asking. "She said, 'No, I'm saying you
need to wear pants.' "
David told the case worker, "I'm not ashamed of what I did, and
y'all shouldn't be neither." When the guest list came out for the
ceremony, his name was not on it.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/02/military-ampute...
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theNotoriousP.I.G. (66 posts) Mon Feb-19-07 05:25 PM
Response to Original message
78. heartbreaking beyond comprehension
"He was awarded a Purple Heart but had no underwear."
There are no words.
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