He had tears in his eyes when he asked me, a kid of 21 with no combat experience and no real medical training, if it could have been possible for him to have saved his best friend who had be shot in the chest while they manned a machine gun against a German Army attack in WWII. He propped his friend up in the back of their foxhole and kept firing the gun as they were nearly overrun. When he looked back a few minutes later his friend had died.
Overcome with empathy and love for my hero father, I knew he was suffering a traumatic loss he would never forget. He believed he could have done something more to have saved his friend.
To this day I cry for my father.
Oddly, I was reminded of my dad’s anguish that fall day in 1971, when I listened to Gov. Granholm’s plea to Pres. Obama to become the leader we need.
Yes, Gov. I agree.
We need leadership now, not more of the empty-headed selfishness exhibited all last week in Tampa.
We need the leadership because the sacrifices which gave us our nation were extreme to the max and made by millions of everyday Americans. They were the kids from Everytown USA who paid and to this day are paying the price so the “I”s can claim they did it all by themselves.
Gov. Granholm: Please Pres. Obama Be The Leader We Need Now!
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http://current.com/shows/the-war-room/videos/rncs-rugged-individualistic-rhetoric-now-behind-us-granholm-looks-to-a-less-selfish-tone-at-the-dnc
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