Posted: June 29, 2012
President Barack Obama visited SPC Josh Wetzel, a Glencoe native and Army paratrooper, at Walter Reed hospital on Thursday. Photo released by family.
WASHINGTON
President Barack Obama visited wounded Alabama soldier Josh Wetzel in the hospital where he's recovering from losing both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan.
President Obama stopped by to visit Wetzel and his wife, Paige, while making the rounds to meet wounded service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Family members said at one point, the president took Wetzel's hand and they prayed together. In one photograph from the visit, President Obama is shown shaking Wetzel's hand while his wife, Paige, looks on, smiling. Wetzel wore an Auburn shirt during his meeting with the president.
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Sure Obama made sure his big grinning mug was facing the camera, can you say "camera Op"
ReplyDeleteHow many pictures have you seen of him with the wounded? The only ones published have come from family members and not the press. He goes several times a year. Much like President Bush's visits, the reporters said he visited but they were not allowed to shoot pictures other than very rare ones.
ReplyDeleteThere are things I do not agree with Obama on but when we turn everything into someone political instead of human, this nation has a deeper level of troubles that do not need to happen.