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… to stay course in Iraq.

You won’t find this in too many spots. I found it on Susie Pie.

From the Washington Times dated June 30, 2005 by Bill Sammon:

President Bush, who met with relatives of fallen soldiers before Tuesday’s Fort Bragg speech, was urged to stay the course in Iraq by a woman who gave him a bracelet honoring her late husband.

“I said: ‘I know people are pushing you, but please don’t pull the guys out of Iraq too soon,’?” said Crystal Owen, whose husband, Staff Sgt. Mike Owen, was killed in Iraq last year.

“Don’t let my husband — and 1,700-plus other deaths — be in vain,” she added during a private meeting with Mr. Bush at the North Carolina base. “They were over there, fighting for a democratic nation, and I hope you’ll keep our service members over there until the mission can be accomplished.”

Mrs. Owen gave the president a stainless steel bracelet engraved with the names of her husband and another soldier, Cpl. John Santos, both of whom were killed on Oct. 15.

The president slipped the bracelet on his left wrist and wore it throughout his 28-minute prime-time address to the nation, becoming visibly emotional at times.

Of course, you didn’t hear about that from any of the TV media that night. In fact, I don’t even recall Britt mentioning it on Fox either.

Although not all family members agree with the president’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, many reported being deeply moved by their sessions with him. These include Dave Bader, whose brother, Staff Sgt. Daniel Bader, was killed in Iraq.

“He was just a regular American who came to talk to us,” he told the Denver Post after meeting with Mr. Bush at Fort Carson, Colo., in November, 2003. “I was touched by that.”

Others used their meetings with the president to counsel perseverance in the face of withering domestic criticism.

“Mike believed in him,” Mrs. Owen said. “He was his commander in chief and would have done anything he was ordered to do.

“I was proud to be a military wife,” she added. “And I was very honored that the president would take time out to meet with me personally.”

Personally — I couldn’t see Flip Flop Kerry or Billary doing this. Lord knows they want nothing but attention attention attention.

Thank you god for the compassion of this man you gave us to run this country.

(Go read the whole 2 page article)