WHAT A MAN
Subject: What Kind of Man?
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> > > >What Kind of Man would do such a thing?
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> > > >At Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington
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> > > >DC recently the Sergeant Major of the Army, Jack
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> > > >Tilley, was with a group of people visiting the
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> > > >wounded soldiers. He saw a Special Forces soldier who
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> > > >had lost his right hand and suffered severe wounds of
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> > > >his face and side of his body. The Sergeant Major of
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> > > >the Army wanted to honor him and show him respect
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> > > >without offending, but what can you say or do in such
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> > > >a situation that will encourage and uplift? How do
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> > > >you shake the right hand of a soldier who has none?
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> > > >There was a man in that group of visitors who had his
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> > > >wife with him to visit the wounded. He seemed to know
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> > > >exactly what to do.
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> > > >This man reverently took the soldiers stump of
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> > > >a hand in both of his hands, knelt at the bedside and
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> > > >prayed for him. When he finished the prayer, he
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> > > >stood up, bent over the soldier and kissed him on
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> > > >the head and told him that he loved him. A powerful
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> > > >expression of love and Christ-like example, for one
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> > > >of our wounded heroes.
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> > > >What kind of a man would do such a thing?
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> > > >The wounded man's Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush;
> > > >President of the
> > > >U.S.A.
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> > > >This story was told by the Sergeant Major of the Army,
> > > >at a Soldiers'
> > > >Breakfast held at Redstone Arsenal, ALABAMA, and
> > > >recorded by Chaplain
> > > >James
> > > >Henderson, stationed there.
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