WATCH: Wounded Army Ranger Gets Standing Ovation At SOTU
President Barack Obama honored Cory Remsberg, an Army sergeant who was wounded on his tenth deployment in Afghanistan, during Tuesday's State of the Union address.
"My recovery has not been easy,' he says. 'Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy,'" Obama said of Remsberg's grueling efforts to learn to speak and walk again after he was wounded by a roadside bomb.
"Cory is here tonight," he continued to a standing ovation for the Army ranger. "And like the Army he loves, like the America he serves, Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg never gives up, and he does not quit."
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DO WE!!!
Teacons too.. they didn't want to be caught not honoring our Troops.
The gopropaganda machine isn't the only one who's whining about St Cory Remsburg.. like PBO wasn't suppose to mention he had "10 Deployments" leading up to and including 2009. Poor thing.
And, not getting the history that these two men have shared. Just ready to jump on PBO for perceived "derps".. The Rage thread..
"13 years at this makes one an expert at claptrap, I guess." Wired!
because saying something is "moving" seems too vague to people worried about the rhetorical effects of this -- in what direction does it "move" us? People have emotions and they can't stand to see others die, commit suicide and be wounded.
Hopefully the applause doesn't provide a catharsis. It would be bad if all who were guilty of promoting the wars can feel a sense of release in their recognition for Cory Remsberg's service. The whole thing evoked a lot of emotion, but will this emotion actually be channeled into stopping the wars and not just become a kind of feel good patriotism?
People are just working out how they feel about this. I don't know, maybe it was an attempt by the President to create a sea change by having people see the effects of violence, reminiscent of a sort of Emmett Till moment.
You said it yourself even though you try to warp it with your projection.
This kind of tribute happens all the time, be it a low-income worker, a single mom, a person who did something extraodinary, etc.
It is used all the time - in political speeches for propaganda purposes. Yes, all....the....fucking....time!
Superior my ass! But by the graces of fate, after 3 tours, I did not end up like that poor Sgt. But I know many, many, many men and women who did.
We react this way because Obama is just another politician making promises to get elected but rarely following through on them. He did not end the war in Iraq. Bush did, and he fought it till the end. He did not end the war in Afghanistan. He pushed and got a surge of troops. He hasn't ended the war on terror. He is escalating it with drone strikes and using it as a justification for illegal uses of spying by the NSA on the American public at large. So yes, 6 years after the pretty speeches, some of us who were against this bullshit war on terror under Bush are just as much so under Obama.
Many expected the Democrat to act differently. I didn't because he is just another politician.
that the chickenhawks in particular are forced to face some of the broken, disfigured lives they have created with their bellicosity and war profiteering. There is some chance that it will make a lasting impression and help to discourage future warmongering.
"Hope lives when people remember." - Simon Wiesenthal.
