Obama Honors Veterans

[Hope And Change]

Run time: 01:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuV8VIRcDXE   Posted on YouTube: November 11, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 11, 2008 By DU Member: Hope And Change Views on DU: 1109

 
President-elect Barack Obama participates in a wreath-laying ceremony in Chicago.

[cooolandrew]

1. Barack has a lot of class and reverence. Change you can be proud of.

[midnight]

2. God bless that women..... Please let's end this war and bring

the troops home.

[life long demo]

4. She is Tammy Duckworth

If my memory serves me, she ran for congress. She is a disable veteran. Lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down in Iraq. But, it was either the VFW or Disable Veterans backed her opponent (Republican) who never served in the service. I remember I was so angry. I wasn't in her area, but she was a good candidate.

[Pharaoh]

3. solemn and touching.....

[newmac]

5. Remember bush blacked out military funerals from the press

..which is why that "bush voter" in the previous vid had no clue;... "you mean there was a war on"?

[Zombie2]

7. do you have a link for this vid?

I watched a Bush Voter vid here on DU... it was only 42 sec or so long and I didn't hear him mention what you're quoting. I don't doubt he said it, but I'd like to watch it for myself.

[Lerkfish]

6. my son, when he was little, called my sister-in-law's prosthetic legs "terminator legs"

she has some good ones, that sort of resemble those of duckworth's.

its unbelievable how expensive those can be: hers are around 4,000 dollars.

sorry to get diverted, there.

anyways, what a reverent and touching thing to do. I'm so proud he's our President.

[jennied]

8. Who's that woman?

[Hope And Change]

10. Tammy Duckworth.She`s an Illinois National Guard major and Iraq War veteran...

Ladda "Tammy" Duckworth (born 1968) is an Illinois National Guard major and Iraq War veteran from the U.S. state of Illinois.<1> She was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for the sixth district of Illinois, which was being vacated by long-time Representative Henry Hyde, and lost to Peter Roskam by 2% of the vote in the highly competitive 2006 House election.<2> On 21 November 2006, Duckworth was appointed the director of the Illinois Veterans' Affairs Department by governor Rod Blagojevich.<3> She spoke at the Democratic National Convention on August 27, 2008, in support of presidential candidate Barack Obama.<4>

Duckworth's combat wounds in Iraq cost her both of her legs and damaged her right arm. She is married to Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey of the Illinois Army National Guard. In 2007, Bowlsbey was informed that he would be deployed to Iraq in April.<5>


more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth

[FrenchieCat]

9. No drama Obama paying tribute to our Veterans.

Love it.