1Dawn
07-03-2005, 06:15 AM
This is from US news and world report. I am glad that the President hasn't forgotten the military and the military families. I wish he would go there every week to get reminded.
Dawn
"Why did President Bush get so emotional at the end of his prime-time speech on Iraq Tuesday night? His senior advisers tell U.S. News and the Bulletin that he nearly "choked up" when he looked out over the several hundred troops in the audience at Fort Bragg, N.C., and that the memory flashed into his mind of his three-hour visit with families of fallen soldiers that had ended just an hour before he began his address. "He was emotionally drained," says a senior Bush adviser. Bush had an hour to gather himself together in a private holding room, but thoughts about the families flooded back at the end of his speech. He told an aide a bit later, "It's tough, but man, the strength of these people!" The president was still wearing a bracelet given to him by the wife of a soldier who had died in Iraq."
Dawn
"Why did President Bush get so emotional at the end of his prime-time speech on Iraq Tuesday night? His senior advisers tell U.S. News and the Bulletin that he nearly "choked up" when he looked out over the several hundred troops in the audience at Fort Bragg, N.C., and that the memory flashed into his mind of his three-hour visit with families of fallen soldiers that had ended just an hour before he began his address. "He was emotionally drained," says a senior Bush adviser. Bush had an hour to gather himself together in a private holding room, but thoughts about the families flooded back at the end of his speech. He told an aide a bit later, "It's tough, but man, the strength of these people!" The president was still wearing a bracelet given to him by the wife of a soldier who had died in Iraq."