Thursday, August 12, 2010

A Different Approach

It's just a different way of doing things. I live about an hour north of DFW. I read the Dallas Morning News every day. I didn't see a mention of this. It looks as though it wasn't meant to be a media event. There wasn't a press release and there weren't a cadre of fawning media papparazi assembled to record the posturing, posing and pontificating.

It was simply a real guy taking some time to meet some returning warriors without a lot of fanfare. If the USO photog hadn't documented it for Facebook, we might never have seen it.

Dubya and Laura Meet Some Good Folks

4 comments:

bongobear said...

I think President Bush and Laura do a lot of this sort of thing behind the scenes. Classy people.

Anonymous said...

I agree,they are very classy people. Their parents taught them manners.

Ralph said...

Thanks for putting this up. President and Mrs. Bush are wonderful people with Texas-sized hearts. As Bongobear and Anonymous point out, they help out a lot of people and get very little recognition from the mainstream. From what I hear he was a pretty good stick with lots of time in the Deuce. Sure miss having that guy in the WH.

Anonymous said...

That's right, " W" was a darn great stick with the Deuce! As a matter of fact, they wanted him for the Apollo program but "W" thought it was more important for the fighter pilot community to do another tour in Nam, where he drew up daring plans to precision bomb the west wall of the Hanoi Hilton in support of an escape attempt, but it was deemed to risky by the politicians. Later in the 70s he was tapped to head the F-15 test program, but the Bush family made him resign his commission and go into politics instead.