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Short/Nice Story
WHAT KIND OF MAN WOULD DO SUCH A THING?
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 rig ht hand and suffered
severe wounds of his face and side of his body.
Sgt. 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 s tood up, bent over the soldier, kissed him on
the head, and told him that he loved him.
Sgt. 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
thought, moved to tears.
What kind of a man would d o 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 rig ht hand and suffered
severe wounds of his face and side of his body.
Sgt. 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 s tood up, bent over the soldier, kissed him on
the head, and told him that he loved him.
Sgt. 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
thought, moved to tears.
What kind of a man would d o 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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