"Dear Mr. Obama" Video and My Hubby
Freedom Has a Price
The powerful 2-minute video below, titled ‘Dear Mr. Obama,’ has been viewed more than 11 million times on YouTube. It is especially moving to our family. I cried.
My husband has something in common with this solider. (If you can’t see the video below it may be your Internet settings. You can view video here. )
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My husband served as a Medic in the Army in the Vietnam War. He received his first Purple Heart and Bronze Star for receiving a bullet in the shoulder while untangling a man during live gunfire from a barbwire fence.
He received the second Bronze Star a month later. A land mine blew up 3 comrades and blew off my husband’s leg. He stopped the bleeding of his own leg with a tourniquet, then went on to give three other men lifesaving medical treatment before passing out.
Like the solider in the video, my husband walks with a prosthetic leg as a daily reminder that freedom has a price. In all these years, through daily consistent pain, he never complains. Like the solider in the video my husband loves America and appreciates the sacrifices made.
Mr. Obama, the war in Iraq is not a mistake.
“…we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
