Move America Forward visits Walter Reed Medical Center

Check the Move America Forward website for a late-nite update on the visit to Walter Reed..AMAZING STORY.

Thank you to all the GOE and Rolling Thunder guys who were there to stick-it to Code Pink. I heard you guys whooped thier butts (so to speak)

It’s just encouraging to know though, that even though they don’t get publicized, those groups are OUT THERE. They’re doing great things to help our troops, and they’re doing it HEAVILY. Out there, across America there is a MASSIVE movement to support our troops, quietly mobilizing to help and support the mission to win in Iraq by giving our fighting men and women the tools and support they need to WIN the war on terror.

Finally I just have to comment about how BLOWN AWAY I was about Debbie’s story tonight. I just can’t believe the coincidence of it. I mean, it’s not a coincidence, it simply can’t be. This had to be fated, undeniably an act of God, at least in my eyes. I mean all those soldiers were going back into the barracks and the group was just about to move onto another building. Brent could have easily been standing right NEXT to the guy Debbie talked to last before moving on. He could have gone back in the barracks 15 seconds earlier and NEVER talked to Debbie. But none of those things interfered, and Debbie got to meet another of the brave men who served with Marc. Absolutely astonishing that The Fight For Victory Tour is blessed with such miracles.

Debbie is the Mom of the first Seal KIA in Iraq.

Here is an extract from the blog about the story...

Debbie was talking to the last guy who was standing outside, and they were JUST about to leave when the veteran she had been speaking to made a comment about Debbie’s shirt. She was of course wearing her Navy Seals shirt, because Marc was a S.E.A.L. The young man Debbie had been talking to said that he had served with some Navy SEALs. It was then that Debbie first told the man that her own son Marc has been a SEAL and that he was in fact the first US Navy SEAL to have been KIA in Iraq.
Before Debbie could even begin to tell Marc’s story, the young US Army Specialist Brent Matchison, 22, asked if it has been in Ramadi, which is exactly where Marc died. Now at first Debbie thought that this guy had just read about Marc. Being the FIRST Navy SEAL to have been KIA, Marc’s story is somewhat well known in the community. But this soldier insisted “I served with your son, I knew Marc.” Debbie didn’t know how that could be, since this guy was in the Army and Marc was in the Navy, but Brent knew exactly the name of the Army Captain whose detail it was that Marc’s SEAL team was attached to.
It was then absolutely clear that this young guy, only 22 years old, from Villa Hills, KY served in the Army unit that Debbie’s son had been assigned to. Brent and Marc had lived and fought together in Iraq before Marc sacrificed his life for Americans everywhere. After much hugs and tears Debbie had acquired yet another surrogate son. It also turns out that Brent has lots of photos of Marc in Iraq, photos the likes of which Debbie has never seen, so it was an absolute Godsend that these two found each other!

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