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Date Posted: 19:32:28 07/14/02 Sun
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PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THIS, IT IS WELL
> WORTH IT.
>
> OUR PRESIDENT.....
>
>
> Have you noticed a difference in the salute
> given by our military men and
> women as President Bush walks by?
Most folkswould not notice
> anything, but military people see it right away.
>
> Watch: When President Bush leaves his
> helicopter or Air Force One, the honor
> guards salute and face him as he disembarks,
> then turn their faces
> towards him as he passes by. They continue to salute
> his back as he walks away.
This kind of salute has not been seen in the
> previous eight years, though it is
> customary courtesy to the Commander-in-Chief.
> You see, soldiers aren't
> required to turn and face the President as
> they salute. They are not
> required to salute his back.
> They are only required to
> salute. They can remain
> face-forward the entire time. And that is what
> they did during Bill Clinton's entire Presidency.
> Our soldiers were
> forced to obey
> Clinton's orders, but they were not forced to respect
> him. From their salutes,
> we can surmise that they did not.
>
Why is such respect afforded to President
> Bush? He doesn't even know how to
> bite his lower lip and not get teary-eyed
> whenever he speaks!
>
> The following incident from Major General Van
> Antwerp may give us an
> insight.
> Gen. Antwerp is president of the Officers'
> Christian Fellowship. He
> lost nearly all his staff when the Pentagon
> was attacked Sept. 11. His executive
> officer LTC Brian Birdwell was badly burned
> and in the hospital when
> President Bush visited him. Our President
> spent time and prayed with Brian.
>
> As he was getting ready to leave, he went to
> the foot of Brian's bed
> and saluted. He held his salute until Brian was
> able to raise his burned
> and bandaged arm, ever so slowly, in return. The
> Commander-in-Chief never
> initiates a salute, except in the case of a
> Congressional Medal of Honor winner.
> The injured soldier did not have to
> return the salute. But he
> did, out of respect to his President -a Soldiers'
> President.
>
> Congressman JC Watts (R. Oklahoma) said,
> "Character is doing the right
> thing when nobody is looking."
> The nation and world
> learned some of what our
> last President did when nobody was looking.
That President has been disbarred
this week -- the worst disgrace (other than
> imprisonment) to a lawyer.
>
> CNN will have a difficult time shining his or his
> wife's tarnished images.
>
> In this time of war and danger, I am so grateful
> to have a President whom
> the soldiers salute --fully.
> On Special Report with Brit Hume, (hosted by
> Jim Angle this evening),
> at the close of the show when they normally have some
> funny video clip, they showed
> President Bush and the First Lady on their way
> to Maine to leave for
> Camp David for the weekend.
> As the video starts,
> the First Lady is leading
> the way into the helicopter with the spaniel dog on
> the leash, and the
> president is right behind her with the Scotty on the leash
> As the First Lady
> entered the
> chopper, the Marine at the gangway saluted and
> held his salute. The
> Scottie the president was walking decided it wanted to
> sit right when he got to the steps.
The president pulled on its leash, but
> the stubborn Scottie
> persisted in sitting. The president bent down
> and scooped up the pooch
> and entered Marine One.
> After he entered, the
> Marine cut his salute and
> returned to the position of attention.
> Moments later
> the president reemerged
> from the helicopter and out onto the steps.
> The Marine was standing at
attention, head
> and eyes straight ahead. The president leaned
> over and tapped him on
> the left arm. The startled Marine turned his body
> toward the president and
> received his returned salute!
> I was so impressed by
> this true act of respect
> for our military people by our president! He really
> does get it. Most any other
> person of his stature would have just
> continued his journey,disregarding the
> neglected return salute.
> Not George W. Bush.
> He is earning the respect
> of the military community, not expecting it -- as
> most have and would.
President George W. Bush. The man who admitted
> to having a drinking
> problem in younger years, and whose happy-go-lucky
> lifestyle led him to mediocre
> grades in college and an ill-fated oil
> venture. Who mangled syntax,
> and whose speaking mis-steps became known as "Bushisms."
>
He came within a hair's breadth of losing the
> election in November.
> While votes were counted and re-counted, Bush
> quietly but confidently waited
> at his ranch.
> Make no mistake, his orders were carried out,
> but he stayed in the
> background, faithful and confident. Bush named
> Jesus Christ as Lord of
> his life on public TV. Not an Oblique reference to
> being "born-again" or
> having a
> "life change." He actually said the un-PC-like
> phrase, "Jesus Christ!"
>
> On September 11, he was thrust into a position
> only known by
> Roosevelt, Churchill, Lincoln, and Washington. The weight
> of the world was on his shoulders, and the responsibility of a
> generation was on his soul.
> So President George W. Bush walked to his seat
> at the front of the
> National Cathedral just three days after two of the
> most impressive symbols of American capitalism and prosperity
virtually evaporated.
> When the history of this time is written, it
> will be acknowledged by
> friend
> and foe alike that President George W. Bush
> came of age in that cathedral and
> lifted a nation off its knees. In what was one
> of the most impressive
> exhibitions of self-control in presidential
> history, President George W. Bush
> was able to deliver his remarks without losing
> his resolve, focus, or confidence.
>
> God's hand, which guided him through that
> sliver-thin election, now
> rested fully on him. As he walked back to his seat,
> the camera angle was
> appropriate. He was virtually alone in the
> scene, alone in that
> massive place
> with God, just him and the Lord ..
> Back at his seat, George H. Bush reached over
> and took his son's hand.
> In that gesture his father seemed to say, "I wish
> I could do this for
> you, son, but I can't.
> You have to do this on your own.
> President George W. Bush squeezed back and
> gave him a look of peace
> that said,
> "I don't have to do it alone, Dad. I've
> got Help". What a
> blessing to have a professing Christian as President.
>
>
> Please take a moment after you read this to
> "pray for him". He truly
> does have the weight of the world on his shoulders.
> Pray that God will
> sustain him and give him wisdom and discernment in his
> decisions.
>
> Pray for his protection and that of his
> family. After you have prayed,
> send this to everyone on your e-mail list. Our
> President needs Christians
> around the world to be praying for him.
> As this makes the rounds,
> eventually there could literally be millions of people
> praying for him ..
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