{"id":39504,"date":"2014-01-29T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39504"},"modified":"2014-01-29T07:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:59:02","slug":"sfc-cory-remsburg-earns-longest-applause-of-sotu-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39504","title":{"rendered":"SFC Cory Remsburg earns longest applause of SOTU address"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I didn’t watch the president’s speech last night. I’ve heard it all before and throwing things at the TV screen isn’t going to fix anything. But Fox News<\/a> reports that Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg earned the longest applause last night;<\/p>\n

Obama described how he first met Remsburg in 2009, at ceremonies commemorating the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. The president described Remsburg as a “strong, impressive young man [who] had an easy manner [and] was sharp as a tack.”<\/p>\n

A few months later, Remsburg was nearly killed by a roadside bomb near Kandahar, Afghanistan. his fellow soldiers found face-down in a canal, underwater, with shrapnel in his brain.<\/p>\n

“The next time I met him, in the hospital, he couldn’t speak; he could barely move,” Obama said to the now-silent crowd in the House chamber. “Over the years, he’s endured dozens of surgeries and procedures, and hours of grueling rehab every day.”<\/p>\n

Obama said that Remsburg remains blind in one eye and struggles to move his left side. But he’s slowly learned to speak, stand and walk again. He’s been awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.<\/p>\n

“Like the Army he loves, like the America he serves, Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit,” Obama said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He earned the applause, but the sergeant didn’t earn those benefits that have made the rest of us independently wealthy. It’s pretty disingenuous of Congress to give SFC Remsburg a standing ovation, while they hike the cost of his healthcare and cut his cost of living allowance. Remsburg didn’t give up and doesn’t quit, but the President and the Congress have no problem with failing him and the rest of the disabled vets who have given the last full measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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