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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 06:04 PM
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President thanks a wheelchair-bound vet.. (the one who went in HIS place?)
Edited on Fri Nov-11-05 06:07 PM by SoCalDem
The guy looks too young to be a WWII or Korea vet..
Somewhere out there is the guy who went in *²'s place..
Could be anyone, even this guy.







U.S. President George W. Bush thanks a wheelchair-bound
veteran U.S. serviceman for his service
following remarks about the 'war on terror'
on Veterans Day in
Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, November 11, 2005.
(Jason Reed/Reuters)
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 06:09 PM
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1. "Hey, thanks for losing your legs....
so I didn't have to. Yer a great Amerikin."
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mark11727 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 06:20 PM
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2. Too bad he couldn't have been as gracious to Senator Cleland...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Cleland
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 06:50 PM
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3. I HATE the term "wheelchair-bound"
We, that use wheelchairs are not like Hannibal. We are not bound w/ropes or restraints to our wheelchairs.

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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 06:54 PM
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4. AP's wording..not mine
A friend's son is a quad, and he was on our bowling league..:)
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