Posted on 08/29/2012 9:56:01 AM PDT by Hojczyk
On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs were killed in the crash.
Yesterday, Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn, spoke at the Defending the Defenders forum sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots outside the RNC Convention in Tampa. Karen brought a copy of the form letter they were sent following their son’s death.
It’s a form letter.
It was signed by an electric pen.
That’s not all. Karen Vaughn reached out to the parents of the other SEALs killed in that crash. They’re letters were all the same. Form letters – signed by an electric pen.
After the deadliest single loss of US forces in Afghanistan, Barack Obama sent out form letters to the parents.
We need Karen Vaughn and her letter on the stage, front and center at the RNC convention in Tampa...
you know it’ll never happen.
If there is any truth to this then a letter personally signed by the president would have been the least he could do.
Yeah, my thought too. Either late for golf or had to wash his hair...
Probably doing coke, pot, and chooms, and screwing his body man Reggie Love to actually do something decent.
POTUS should hand sign ALL of these.
Only a fool has ever thought obama was a leader .
EXCLUSIVE: Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately Met with thousands of war injured, kin out of spotlight
Joseph Curl (Contact) and John Solomon (Contact) Monday, December 22, 2008
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/22/bush-cheney-comforted-troops-privately/
EXCLUSIVE:
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
"People say, 'Why would you do that?'" the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. "And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish."
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
"I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview. "She has been very reassuring, very calming."
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said.
The first lady said those private visits, many of which she also attended, took a heavy emotional toll, not just on the president, but on her as well.
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So, more than likely, Barry the Kenyan Guy never even saw these “letters” and doesn’t even know they were sent. Nice.
By less than a minute... good work FRiend!
See my tag line!
COME NOVEMBER 7TH....WE WILL!!
Back at cha, Slim. Thanks for the link.
Somebody go find the letters signed by the President following the death of these heroes on 28 Jun 2005 during Operation Red Wing. I’ll bet you a beer they were personally signed by President Bush:
Task Force 160, US Army killed were:
• Staff Sgt. Shamus O. Goare
• Chief Warrant Officer Corey J. Goodnature
• Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby
• Sgt. 1st Class Marcus V. Muralles
• Master Sgt James W. Ponder III
• Maj. Stephen C. Reich
• Sgt. 1st Class Michael L. Russell
• Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach
The SEALS killed were:
• Lieutenant Michael Murphy
• Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny P. Dietz
• Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson
• Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan
• Senior Chief Petty Officer Daniel R. Healy
• Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen
• Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffery A. Lucas
• Lt. Michael M. McGreevy, Jr.
• Petty Officer 2nd Class James Suh
• Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Patton
• Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor
There.... fixed it.
Monday, December 22, 2008
EXCLUSIVE:Bush, Cheney comfort troops privately
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
"People say, 'Why would you do that?'" the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. "And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish."
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
"I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview. "She has been very reassuring, very calming."
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said. (excerpted)
Later on in this piece it comments on Cheney's private visits as well, often not getting picked up by the media til days later because they were so secretive. Bush/Cheney are exponentially more respectful and in awe of our military than the current denizens of the White-hut, who only see these opportunities as a photo-op.
So, to answer part of your snarky question, yes, Bush did write PERSONAL letters to the troops and their families.
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