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Obama Visits Wounded Soldiers At Walter Reed Army Medical Center
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe day after a massacre at Fort Hood, President Obama visited the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington late Friday. The visit was planned before a shooting rampage left 13 people killed and 30 wounded. Still, the contrast is striking: soldiers hurt while fighting two wars, and those killed and hurt Thursday at a Texas military post, where the suspect is an Army major. The visit was private and lasted 30 or 40 minutes longer than the hour Obama had been expected to spend visiting wounded soldiers. Deputy Press secretary Tommy Vietor told the print pool, ``While at Walter Reed, the ...
Soldiers Inspire Ryan Newman, NASCAR's Best
By Holly Cain - AOL NewsIt was not the scars and burns, nor all the prosthetic limbs, or even the constant hum of machines dripping life into some patients that most struck Ryan Newman during a visit Thursday with injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. It was a far more simple concept that impacted the 2008 Daytona 500 winner most. "The age of the people we visited is mind-boggling,'' Newman said. "The average age of the soldier is way younger than you'd imagine.'' Eighteen, 19, 20 years old. ... ages when Newman, 31, in a pre-Sept. 11 era was frantically working toward an engineering degree at Purdue ...
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