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03-20-2005, 09:29 PM
Subject: Soldiers Breakfast - WORTH THE READ
Jack Tilley, a Sergeant Major of the Army, was with a
group of people
who recently were visiting wounded soldiers at Walter
Reed Medical Center
in Washington, DC.
He saw a Special Forces soldier who had lost his right
hand and
suffered severe wounds of his face and side of his
body.
Sergeant Tilley 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?
He decided to act as though the hand was not missing
and gripped the
soldiers wrist while speaking words of comfort and
encouragement to
him.
However, there was another man in the group who knew
exactly what to
do.
This man reverently took the soldier's stump of a hand
in both of his
hands, bowed at the bedside, and prayed for him.
When he finished the prayer he stood up, bent over
the soldier, kissed
him on the head, and told him that he loved him.
Sergeant Tilley was awed by the powerful _expression
of love for one of
our wounded heroes he was witnessing! "What a
beautiful Christ-like
example!" he tought, moved to tears.
What kind of a man would do such a thing?
It was the wounded man's Commander-In-Chief, George W.
Bush, President
of the United States.
This eyewitness account was told by Sergeant Major
Jack Tilley at a
Soldiers Breakfast at Red Stone Arsenal, AL, and
recorded by Chaplain James
Henderson, who was stationed there.
>Pass it on.... the PRESS WON'T !!!
Jack Tilley, a Sergeant Major of the Army, was with a
group of people
who recently were visiting wounded soldiers at Walter
Reed Medical Center
in Washington, DC.
He saw a Special Forces soldier who had lost his right
hand and
suffered severe wounds of his face and side of his
body.
Sergeant Tilley 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?
He decided to act as though the hand was not missing
and gripped the
soldiers wrist while speaking words of comfort and
encouragement to
him.
However, there was another man in the group who knew
exactly what to
do.
This man reverently took the soldier's stump of a hand
in both of his
hands, bowed at the bedside, and prayed for him.
When he finished the prayer he stood up, bent over
the soldier, kissed
him on the head, and told him that he loved him.
Sergeant Tilley was awed by the powerful _expression
of love for one of
our wounded heroes he was witnessing! "What a
beautiful Christ-like
example!" he tought, moved to tears.
What kind of a man would do such a thing?
It was the wounded man's Commander-In-Chief, George W.
Bush, President
of the United States.
This eyewitness account was told by Sergeant Major
Jack Tilley at a
Soldiers Breakfast at Red Stone Arsenal, AL, and
recorded by Chaplain James
Henderson, who was stationed there.
>Pass it on.... the PRESS WON'T !!!
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03-20-2005, 09:52 PM
Very good story Beef! Thanks for sharing. I will pass this one on..
03-20-2005, 11:42 PM
i dont think ne one can question the heart of bush..its the way he thinks is what gets people confused
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