Flashback: Bush Visits Wounded Troops at Walter Reed in '05 (Building 18?)

[gatorboy]

Was this building 18?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/01/national/w143327D36.DTL

Bush Visits Wounded Troops at Walter Reed

By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
Friday, July 1, 2005


President Bush expressed his gratitude to the nation's men and women in uniform on Friday, praising them for "laying the foundation for peace for generations to come."

Bush visited 37 soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

"Every time I come here I am struck by the remarkable resolve and courage of the men and women who are treated here," he said.

Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said it was an emotional visit for Bush. He said one soldier who had lost a leg struggled to rise so that he could stand at attention to salute Bush.

[rcsl1998]

1. Ward 57

I believe all photo-op 'visits' are done in Ward 57 - definitely not Building 18

[Monkeyman]

2. Yep all photo op where in ward 57

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. They took him to the "Potemkin Ward"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village