Posted on 06/23/2012 5:43:36 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
Edited on 06/23/2012 5:46:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Blinded when a suicide bomber's car exploded in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005, Scotty Smiley was in Alaska this week speaking on behalf of a new wilderness lodge for wounded military members and their spouses.
Capt. Smiley, the first blind, active-duty Army officer, stood in uniform on a Port Alsworth dock jutting into Lake Clark and said he was enjoying the sun and fresh air. He talked to reporters about how the bomb blast nearly wrecked his marriage half a dozen years ago. An all-expenses-paid retreat like the one starting this weekend, put on by evangelist Franklin Graham's charity Samaritan's Purse, would go a long way toward helping other couples' relationships and faith survive a spouse's lasting battlefield wounds, Smiley said.
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I have known men who were RA officers who lost much less and they were medically discharged. If this officer is not a Chaplain-I really wonder why he is still on AD? God knows I feel for him and his loved ones. I have told several 80 plus year old mothers what really happenened to their sons as we valued the words -”Top Secret”. I do wish the best for this man and his family. I just wonder if AD is the answer?
Why don't you ask his CO? In the meantime, I will pray for all those who have been wounded, including you...and I will give thanks that Samaritan's Purse is providing this service.
I will. You can bet on it. I know you mean well, and; so do I. I met a chaplain in early spring 69 after I was much better, and; the man had been in WWII as an INF CPT.He was very beneficial to one SFC I knew who were hit seven plus times.
Even if the Pentagon under the leadership of O and P continues to dis Franklin Graham We do so agree Samaritans Purse is doing God’s Work.
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