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As Commander in Chief of the military, the United States president is often faced with making far-reaching, life-and-death decisions.
Although this might sometimes seem to the public like a cold and calculating game of chess, it may feel far different to the
human heart that beats within such an overburdened leader.
The Huffington Post
recently reported that when “the mother of a dying soldier” gave then-President George W. Bush an angry piece of her mind, Bush “just stood and took it.”
As this soldier lay suffering in a hospital bed, his mother “yelled at the president” and specifically asked “why it was her child and not his…”
Bush did not try to hurry away from the soldier’s bedside. It
was as though he were trying “to soak up” some of this mother’s profound sorrow.
Dana Perino, who was right there with Bush during this hospital visit, later wrote that the president became teary-eyed during the trip home. He then told
Perino: That mama sure was mad at me. And I
don’t blame her a bit.
Resources
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/25/george-w-bush-dying-soldier-mother_n_7142684.html
Copyright May 6, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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