[Gathnet] What Kind of Man?

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   What Kind of Man would do such a thing? 
 
   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 Sergeant Major of the Army 
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? 
 
   There was a man in that group of visitors who had 
his wife with him to visit the wounded. He seemed to 
know exactly what to do. This man reverently took the 
soldiers stump of a hand in both of his hands, knelt 
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. 
 
   A powerful __expression of love and Christ-like 
example, for one of our wounded heroes. 
 
   What kind of a man would do such a thing? 
 
   The wounded man's Commander-in-Chief, George W. 
Bush; 
   President of the U.S.A. 
 
   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. 
 
   Pass it on... the press won't